Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wake of the Watergate scandals, Bok made the fledgling school of government one of his top priorities. Citing the "dolorous record" of government during those years, Bok called for "nothing less than the education of a new profession," in a 1973 speech...
Brennan's speech was the 26th Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Lecture. He was the first sitting justice to deliver the annual address, which this year drew more than 1000 of those attending Harvard's 350th anniversary celebration...
...public position perceptibly hardened. Speakes reversed himself, now suggesting that a swap might not be worth considering after all. So did the State Department, but only after its boss spoke up. "Let there be no talk of a trade for Daniloff," Secretary of State Shultz declared in his speech during Harvard's 350th-anniversary celebrations on Friday. "We, and Nick himself, have ruled that out." Calling the arrest of the magazine correspondent an "outrage," Shultz said it "showed the dark - side of a society prepared to resort to hostage taking as an instrument of policy...
...that H.R.H. had any reason to worry. No stranger to pomp and circumstance, Charles (B.A., Cambridge, 1970) was resplendent in his academic gown. He scored high marks with self-deprecating quips ("Have no fear, ladies and gentlemen. I am used to being regarded as an anachronism") and a serious speech, which he wrote himself, on the dangers of allowing the teaching of technology to supersede humanistic values ("A good man, as the Greeks would say, is a nobler work than a good technologist"). The American Cantabrigians were duly charmed, and while Charles went on to the rest of his brief...
Flamboyantly garbed in a white cloak, purple shirt and black jacket, Gaddafi paused at one point during his speech to allow young Libyan women dressed in battle fatigues to chant cheerleader-style, "Down, down, U.S.A." Announcing that he planned to consult with his Libyan "people's committees" about withdrawing from the nonaligned, he called the summit a mere exchange of courtesies. "We meet," he said. "We eat together, we travel long distances and laugh together. In the cause of freedom we should not be nice to each other...