Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deliberately committed ourselves to the principle of respecting Duke Kent-Brown's right of free speech. This principle was the guiding consideration and standard by which we formulated our plan....we decided to engage in a symbolic blockade....The intent of this action was to ensure that Kent-Brown interact with the numerous protestors against apartheid who were outside the Science Center...
Government has a lot more to do with how people feel about their world than how "experts" vainly try to make it. I once found myself standing in a park in Bolivar, Tennesse listening to Senator Jim Sasser give a speech. An old farm lady who saw my grey suit came up to me with tears in her eyes. She wanted to thank me for what the Senator and his staff had done. They had gotten her son discharged from the Marines when the Marines were about to put him in jail for two years...
...Diner, has the nice idea of making a movie about what people actually do. He also has the ingenuity to give surprising twists to the taffy of his plot. And like a best pal, he knows how to listen, to find obsessions in the sprung rhythms of everyday speech. Levinson has found the perfect cast for this comic elegy; each actor's face is a subtle caricature of ordinary futility. In fact, most of the movie is pretty funny, if you can convince yourself that these people are a whole lot of somebody elses...
...action, not social and economic reforms, is the immediate solution to terrorist acts," she told an audience at the Philippine Military Academy. Earlier that day she had pledged to "smite the foe on the left and the right." Said Aquino: "I want a string of honorable military victories." Her speech represented a dramatic shift in tactics aimed at ending both the 18-year Communist insurgency and coup threats by military officers loyal to former President Ferdinand Marcos...
...Northern Illinois University, white students in a pickup truck yelled slurs at blacks attending a speech by the Rev. Jesse Jackson; an unauthorized N.I.U. student magazine printed sick poetry ("O.K.,/ Look nigger,/ We are white./ White is supreme./ Jesus was white./ God is white./ All of our Presidents have been white./ Thank you God"); and swastika-decorated flyers saying NIGGERS GET OUT appeared in campus buses...