Word: speech
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...believe in the theater," said the new Baron of Brighton in his maiden speech to the House of Lords in 1971. "I believe in it as the first glamourizer of thought." That was the theater to Laurence Olivier, and that was Olivier to all who fell under the glamorous spell he wove. More immediately and lastingly than any other modern actor, Olivier picked words off the playscript page, flung them passionately into the dark and secured them in the minds of theatergoers. Brilliance, for once, had its rewards. As critic Kenneth Tynan proclaimed in 1966, "Laurence Olivier at his best...
...event of a mass exodus. In the meantime, Britain would hasten the implementation of self-rule and press Beijing for fresh assurances that Chinese troops would stay out of Hong Kong. The colony's Chinese were not appeased. Storming out of the hall where the Foreign Secretary delivered his speech, eight prominent local officials shouted, "Shame, shame...
Although interrupted by applause five times andgiven a standing ovation at the end of his speech,Bush encountered little more than a correctresponse from the parliament and a tepid receptionon the streets of Warsaw...
Prime Minister Mieczyslaw F. Rakowski told Bush the speech "contained many thoughts permeated with realism." But Foreign Minister Tadeusz Olechowski said his nation was not looking for "a rain of gold...
...president would up his busy day as guest ata state dinner hosted by the Communist Partyleader, Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski. Striking muchthe same tone as in his speech to parliament, Bushsaid in a toast that Poland was entering a new eraand was "beginning, once again, to command its owndestiny...