Word: speech
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Last Friday Philipp Jenninger, president of the West German Parliament, resigned after an address that said many Germans felt that Adolf Hitler brought "glorious times" before the war and the Holocaust. Jenninger's nationally televised speech was meant to mark the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the vicious rampage against the Jews that began the Nazi genocide...
...speech, Jenninger described Hitler's rise to power as a "triumphal procession" for many Germans, but also stressed his own record of opposing totalitarian regimes...
During his speech, Jenninger said, he tried to reach the youth of West Germany by describing the horrors of the Holocaust and explaining how a civilized nation could descend to sheer barbarism. "And when it got so bad, as it was in November 1938, people could still say, using the words of a contemporary--'What is it to us? Look away if it terrifies you, it is not our fate,'" he said...
...reason I chose disability as a theme is because there's a growing interest in it on campus," said Dan Berger '89, the executive producer of the play. "Luckily, I found a play; people will think about a play in a way they won't think about a speech...
Stern may be right, but the larger truth is that the candidates trivialized their campaigns in order to meet the demands of commercial TV news. The past had taught them that although a candidate might deliver a thoughtful speech, if he tripped and fell as he left the stage, that was all anyone would see on the news. TV covers only three things, says Bush's media guru, Roger Ailes, "visuals, attacks and mistakes." Broadcast news, agrees Michael Deaver, Ronald Reagan's former imagemaker, is "primarily concerned with entertainment values...