Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article with these characteristics may merit swift and thorough rebuttal, but a university committed to freedom of expression cannot respond with censorship. The First Amendment exists precisely to protect speech which challenges prevailing beliefs, provokes controversy, and presents ideas which others passionately hate. To be meaningful, freedom of speech must protect dissent, even when those in power perceive it as irresponsible or unreasonable. Mr. Larew rightly calls attention to the racial inequality still imbedded in our society, but his prescription of thought control must be rejected as dangerous and counterproductive. Alan D. Viard, GSAS
Following his acceptance speech, President-elect Gorbachev approaches failed Democratic candidate Leo Buscaglia with arms spread wide in a gesture of post-election reconciliation. Dr. Buscaglia, who responds by smacking Gorbachev in the kisser, is siezed and taken away by a cadre of special body guards whose appointment had been the new president's first official...
...time bringing his trademark style of personal diplomacy to Yugoslavia, a nonaligned Communist country. His primary goal during the five-day trip was to improve relations with Yugoslavia, which was cast out of the Soviet orbit by Joseph Stalin in 1948 for taking an independent political line. In a speech to the National Assembly, Gorbachev apologized for the "great harm" caused by Stalin's "unfounded accusations" of disloyalty against Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavia's longtime leader, who died...
...Illinois, both wound up at separate events at Knox College in Galesburg, site of a Lincoln-Douglas clash. Fearful of an ambush, Bush's men dispatched a staffer with a walkie-talkie to watch Dole. When Dole finished his event and headed toward where Bush was giving his dinner speech, the staffer frantically radioed, "He's on his way over...
...find another message. He flirted in Illinois with becoming the anti-Establishment candidate, a hard metamorphosis for a Senator's son who attended St. Albans and Harvard. But he seems most at home talking defense or microchips. The only passion he could muster in Illinois -- a speech about the Government's important role in the coming information revolution, delivered in front of a Cray X-MP/24 supercomputer -- is no more likely to find adherents in Rust Belt Michigan than it did in Illinois...