Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have encountered problems with language--at times we have had difficulty saying exactly what we wanted to say or even speaking at all. Moments like these make us painfully aware of the limitations of language, of our language. We realize that speech is a labor of love, an effort to obliterate the spaces and experiences that block our understanding of one another, render them irrelevant in some human communion. Paradoxically, these failings of language and speech connect us--our blighted attempts become a universal tie in the human experience...
...page narrative moves slowly through 21 years of stutterer Jeremy Zorn's life. There is a rough chronology, but more free association, as one would find in a psychiatric session. Narrated in the first person, the book reads like a record of therapy. Jeremy's speech therapist Sandra is addressed in apostrophe and hangs over much of the book like some Poe-esque confidant...
...dream was soon shattered by the cry of an angry activist. As the council voted to close debate on a controversial amendment before it began, the crowd erupted into a chaotic demonstration. And the very council which had just reaffirmed its progressive bent was being accused of stifling free speech...
Kornbluh and other ARAC supporters said that many current U.S. miltary policies are so contrary to University principles of free speech and self-determination that ROTC could never be allowed back to Harvard...
...relatives are no longer satisfied with my standard "what-I-will-do-when-I-grow-up" speech. And I'm not sure I still want to be a police officer or an acrobat...