Word: speech
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...always thought that Massachusetts voters were the smartest voters in the country." former Senator George S. McGovern jokes in nearly every campaign speech he makes here...
...division has been a matter of special concern to Pope John Paul II. In public statements, beginning with a speech in 1979 before the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, he has said that there are no irreconcilable differences between science and faith. As a symbol of comity, he has made the rehabilitation of Galileo a major goal...
Beneath the satire, Aksyonov seems to be making a point in The Island similar to the one made by Fellow Exile Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his 1978 Harvard speech: materialism is softening up the West for the triumph of Communism. By contrast, there are no hidden homilies in Aksyonov's multilevel, 230,000-word novel, The Burn, which Random House will publish later this year. A denser, darker work than The Island, The Burn reflects the author's searing experience as the child of victims of Stalin's great purges. It also powerfully evokes another subject proscribed...
...finest Russian poets of his generation, has been rendered into English by such distinguished American colleagues as Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht and Howard Moss. Brodsky has even acted as his own translator for two of the poems included in his latest collection, A Part of Speech (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Currently a New York City resident, Brodsky has been covered with honors, prizes and fellowships, including a $208,000 Mac Arthur Foundation award in 1981. Manifestly, he has traveled a vast distance since 1964, when he was convicted as a "social parasite" in Leningrad and forced to serve as a laborer...
...pornography promotes bigotry and fosters acts of aggression against women, both of which, in turn, "harm women's opportunities for equality of rights in employment, education, property rights,...contribute significantly to restricting women from full exercise of citizenship . . . and undermine women's equal exercise of rights to speech and action...