Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Former U.S. Representative Shirley Chisholm will address graduating students at MIT's commencement this June, marking only the third time an outside speaker has given the ceremony's Leynote speech...
...commencement speech had been given by the president of the university until June of 1982, when Katharine M. Graham, publisber of the Washington Post, became the first outside speaker to deliver the address. Former Chancellor of West Germany Heimut Schmich spoke to the class...
Tsongas and Dukakis have said that they will not endorse a candidate before the primary. But Tsongas included in his retirement speech a plea that Massachusetts voters "take seriously the tradition of sending progressive members to U.S. Senate...
...rather than carried into office, but it is a hardening process without any real rules. So candidates develop rote answers to predictable questions, and interviewers try to knock them off balance. These impromptu answers become the real television discussion of the issues instead of the candidate's full speech that is never heard...
...performer first, he made certain that his most complex lyrics could be delivered with ease (upon hearing Coward do Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Porter said that it was the first time he had ever heard a song delivered in one breath). Coward's broken rhythms uncannily reflect modern speech, and his rhymes are unpredictable ("The police had to send a squad car/ When Daddy got fried on vodka"). And many of his topics have actually grown more pertinent with age: "Mother requires a few more shots,/ Does it amuse the tiny mites/ To see their parents high as kites...