Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposed amendments to the Constitution that would permit supposedly voluntary prayer in public schools, overturning Supreme Court decisions in 1962 and 1963 that are bitterly resented by many religious groups and their political allies. The high court rulings, cried Ohio Republican Delbert Latta during an all-night House speech-making session, "favor atheism over Christianity...
...Christmas display, gave new heart to those who hope, and new worries to those who fear, that the court may now be less insistent on maintaining a "wall of separation between church and state."* Chief Justice Warren Burger, writing for the majority, called the wall "a useful figure of speech" but "not a wholly accurate description of the practical aspects of the relationship that in fact exists between church and state...
Reagan made pleas for school prayer to national TV audiences in his January State of the Union address and the subsequent announcement of his candidacy for reelection. In his speech to the Evangelicals last week, Reagan said, "Hasn't something gone haywire when this great Constitution of ours is invoked to allow Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen to march on public property and urge the extermination of Jews and the subjugation of blacks, but it supposedly prevents our children from Bible study or the saying of a simple prayer in their schools...
Mondale was suddenly deriding Hart as if Hart were Reagan and not a kindred Democrat. The former Vice President accused his opponent of declining to fight for the nuclear freeze. Mondale made a tub-thumping speech in Tampa suggesting that Hart is for "Big Oil" and "the hospital lobby," that he "attacks entitlements" and that he would force "working families to pay more taxes." (At a 1979 Senate campaign fund raiser for Hart, Mondale had extravagantly praised the Coloradan. "Gary Hart is one of the most decent and compassionate public servants I have ever known in my life...
...heir-apparent to the director-ship of the Freud Archives, even gained permission to go through a cupboard of previously unrevealed Freud letters. At the Archives, Masson unearthed what he believed was significant new documentation that Freud abandoned his seduction theory for intellectually dishonest reasons. Masson delivered a speech on his beliefs, and like a prodigal son was tossed out of the Archives and Eissler's life for attacking the master...