Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...widely publicized speech in Los Alamos, N.M., Coles presented recent research findings in which he attacks as methodologically flawed studies that conclude that the threat of nuclear war has terrorized children...
Mondale appeared tired and read his 25-min. speech in a lackluster singsong. ("The speech was typed better than it was read," groaned one of his supporters.) Nevertheless, the force and eloquence of the language prompted his obviously sympathetic audience to interrupt him with 24 ovations. The speech struck hard and often at Reagan's remark about intolerance. "B'nai B'rith is opposed to Mr. Reagan's [school-prayer] amendment; I would not call you intolerant of religion," said Mondale. "Baptists, Episcopalians, Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans and other church groups also oppose his amendment. And they...
...politics and religion after becoming angered by the Laxalt letter and the partisan appeal to religious value that he saw as he watched the Republican Convention on television from his home in North Oaks, Minn. He asked about two dozen scholars and theologians to contribute ideas for a speech on the subject, and he conferred by telephone with New York Governor Mario Cuomo, a Roman Catholic who has done much soul searching on church-state issues. In daily sessions with Chief Speechwriter Martin Kaplan, Mondale reviewed ten drafts before he was satisfied with the speech as a definitive statement...
...widely publicized speech in Los Alamos, N.M., Coles presented recent research findings in which he attacks as methodologically flawed studies that conclude that the threat of nuclear war has terrorized children...
...because of who she is: daughter of poor immigrants, teacher, lawyer, mother, prosecutor-political assets she is not shy to exploit. She claims these to be the source of her values, and it was these values and those sources that she displayed so prominently in her acceptance speech in San Francisco. They are, in fact, the only discernible theme of her campaign so far. If you run on your person, it is somewhat disingenuous to be surprised when the world then wants to know, in accountant's detail, exactly what kind of person you really are. The personality candidate...