Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIME AND time again, Cuomo touches on the key issues of latter-day liberalism--busing, quotas, the death penalty, race relations, labor relations--only to leave the reader grasping for straws. Recounting a February 21, 1981 speech to a Glen Oaks Jewish group, Cuomo writes...
...summer after my father's freshman year, Harvard's president, James B. Connel '12, looked to the future in a speech before the American Chemical Society. "The year 1984," Conant said, "does not glare with menace in my crystal ball...
...perhaps the most liberal member of the Corporation--he made an anti-war speech in 1969 in Dunster House which helped him land on president Nixon's second "Enemies List"--Calkins was a natural for dealing with disgrunted students. During the strike, he penned masterful press releases for the Corporation and once even stormed into The Crimson--where he had served a brief stint as President in 1942--to type a rebuttal to what he felt was a distortion of his views on a Yard poster...
...Class of '59's years here began with one fiery event--the tower of Memorial Hall burned down after their freshman exams--and ended with another: Fidel Castro's speech outside the Harvard Stadium in the spring of their senior year. "His speech was demagogic." Hawkins says of the Cuban leader's appearance shortly after his rise to power. "Afterwards, when the series of executions in Cuba became known, attitudes changed radically. But then he was simply a visiting celebrity...
...their gripe list is the value of the yen. Many executives contend that restrictions in the Japanese financial system have kept the yen artificially cheap compared with the dollar, and thus have made it easier for Japanese manufacturers to keep prices low when selling their products abroad. In a speech in Detroit earlier this month, Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca declaimed, "The Japanese yen is undervalued by at least 15%, and everyone in Washington agrees on that...