Word: speech
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Students build shanties in Harvard Yard under the watchful guard of campus police. University officials decide to allow them to remain standing, saying the structures are an expression of free speech. The students take down the shanties several days after Commencement ceremonies...
There is tremendous misuse of words and phrases which stems from ignorance about the words' definitions. Some of this is particularly common in the speech of people outside the fields of humanities from which these words come. Often we hear that deconstructionism is the hottest new wave in literary analysis. But how many of us know even a little about how it works? And how many of us forget that rationalism refers specifically to the belief that humans have a cognitive faculty which allows for reason independent of experience (it does not simply refer to the process of "thinking logically...
...speech, the secretary quoted sections of "Crack in the Ivy," a two-part series that ran in The Crimson November 19-20, as evidence that the University treats the drug issue casually, said John Walters, special assistant to Bennett...
When he was working in the speech writing office, Doolittle would get assignments from Jody Powell, Carter's press secretary, or Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan. He would get ideas from talking to White House bureaucrats, and then submit an example. He says that Carter would look at the speech at the last minute and comment on it--usually "a long list of disconnected things" which often had nothing to do with the original subject of the speech...
...Carter took less interest in [speech-writing] than most successful politicians," says Doolittle. "He was not that good with a prepared text. He didn't have any charisma...