Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That means more than an annual vote for candidates who often manipulate us through the media. It means control over how issues are articulated and worked into agendas and some direct control over the adoption and implementation of legislation. Otherwise, the exercise of our basic rights, such as free speech, is often pointless and ineffectual...
...afternoon speech, McLaughlin said the college would lose its ability to influence South Africa's racist policies if it divested, said Laurie Adams, a Dartmouth divestment activist...
...pointless dinner party, the pre-Madonna-esque Ford girl heroine (portrayed, through the eyelashes, by international Cover Girl Adjani), tells a roomful of squares exactly what she thinks of them. With her Bride of Frankenstein fright wig and a gutter-mouthed talent for the unprintable expletive, she makes a speech unparalleled in pure offensiveness. The audience is cued to laugh uproariously. But profanity-as-a-punchline went out with The Bad News Bears, and the audience remains untickled and stone-faced, blushing uncomfortably in a suddenly confining theatre seat...
...Harvard resembled room, on the other hand, resembled a bigwig bash. Among the guests were President Derek C. Bok (who gave a postgame speech), Vice President Daniel Steiner '54, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, and former football Captain Steve Abbott...
Further, there is not yet a clear understanding of whether the Law School is seeking to suppress free speech or irresponsible protest...