Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...struggle to distinguish between wisdom and folly, reality and insanity. Although that achievement belongs primarily to McDonough's Lear, it owes almost as much to the agility of Kevin Keragga's Fool. The Fool acts as Lear's gadfly, confronting him with harsh truths, but his actions and speech are so thoroughly inconsistent that neither Lear, nor the audience ever completely comprehends him. Keraga does a brilliant job of balancing flamboyance and melancholy, credibility and recklessness. His manner and movements, as well as his recitation of Shakespeare's rhymes, give every one of his scenes depth...
...crux of the comedy comes when George is left on stage for what is supposed to be a soliloquy of Shakespeare from Macbeth to a Midsummer Night's Dream. he resorts to reciting the pledge allegiance and the act of contrition. Like the rest of the play, the speech is funny for a while, but rapidly becomes tiresome. By the end of the evening, George's nightmare has become the audience's own bad dream...
Undergraduate Council; Harvard-Radcliffe Speech and Parliamentary Debate; HAND Community Program; House Committee and Intramurals; Student Assembly...
...General Assembly, his third appearance at the U.N. Though Reagan planned to touch on a number of world trouble spots, White House aides expected him to refrain from finger pointing and instead express confidence that progress can be achieved through good-faith negotiations. The second half of his speech was to be devoted to U.S.-Soviet relations. Reagan planned to open this section by reasserting his commitment to negotiation rather than confrontation as a means of settling disputes. He was expected to list three short-term U.S. goals in dealing with Moscow: a series of discussions on regional crisis areas...
...address had originally been set for Tuesday, before he sat down with either Shultz or Reagan. But after his arrival in New York, Gromyko cagily rescheduled to the later date for "technical reasons." That would give him the option to tone down the expected tough line of the speech if he wanted to respond favorably to Reagan's address or to overtures made by Shultz in private. Most analysts predicted that Gromyko would stick to his original text. "He will probably give us a good deal of tough stuff and lay out old positions as new Soviet initiatives," says...