Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Students Association and Muhammad Kenyatta enmesh themselves in contradictory statements. Thus they reject the charge I and Professor Orlando Patterson made (April 25), that they used the PLO representative's appearance here on April 20th to thumb their nose at those precious intellectual norms of fairness and free speech, and then proceed unwittingly to reveal that they in fact have very little respect for these norms. I have several reactions to their letter...
...major speech last week in Cincinnati, Mondale began sounding less like Hubert Humphrey and more like, well, Gary Hart. With stirring Kennedyesque rhetoric, Mondale intoned, "We must make history, not just watch it. We must invent the future, not just accept it." In the speech he referred to the future, a patented Hart byword, a total of 15 times...
...year, the Chinese remain opposed to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, Soviet support for Viet Nam, and the presence of 52 Soviet divisions on China's northern border. Reagan will have three televised opportunities to get his message across to the Chinese public: an interview with Chinese journalists, a speech at Peking's Great Hall of the People, and a question-and-answer session with students at Shanghai's Fudan University. Besides the requisite stops at schools, suburban communes and the Great Wall, Reagan and Wife Nancy will take a one-day side trip to Xian, an archaeological wonder featuring...
...Pittsfield, Mass. Born in England of a white English mother and black American father, Mercer gained renown at Bricktop's Paris café in the 1930s and went to the U.S. in 1939. As her husky contralto began to fail, she honed her unique blend of cadenced speech and vocalizing, delivering such songs as Fly Me to the Moon and While We 're Young with consummate phrasing and timing. Said she: "It's all in the punctuation...
...dialogues in a Harold Pinter play are pitched battles between speech and silence. The speaker marshals all the resources of colloquial language-wit, wheedling, anecdote, abuse-while the listener waits out his opponent and, often as not, wins the battle by withholding approval, by being as silent as God. Such, too, is the uneasy symbiosis of Playwright Pinter and his audience. In these three short plays that Alan Schneider has mounted off-Broadway (two of them first performed at London's National Theater in 1982, the third earlier this year), Pinter dramatizes this relationship through three memorable audience surrogates...