Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concession speech last night, Dukakis said that he would return to state issues immediately. He indicated that he would run again in 1990, but he did state any definite plans...
...appeal is simple, direct, visceral. Us vs. Them. The Haves vs. the Have-Nots. The cry has a long and honorable history among Democratic presidential candidates. Dukakis' populist pitch began as far back as Labor Day, when he delivered a speech shaped by Bob Shrum, the veteran Democratic wordsmith who had designed Dick Gephardt's populist incarnation. Lee Atwater, George Bush's pugnacious campaign manager, admits, "I got a little worried after the Labor Day speech that they were going to catch on to the populist approach." But only last week did the Dukakis campaign go ballistic. "George Bush wants...
Fallon makes a dramatic debut to political stardom when a Contra leader he welcomes to Washington is assassinated on the podium while the two embrace. Fallon is shot, but struggles to the podium to make a heroic speech urging Americans to support the Contra cause in honor of the leader who lies dead beside...
John Cage, Harvard's Norton Lecturer this year, however, makes it a point to say nothing in his lectures. Relying on chance combinations determined by the I Ching principle, Cage arranges words and letters in a random fashion to create a speech that indicates, as he says, his "nonintention...
When composing the lectures, six of which are delivered by a scholar in either the arts, literature or music each year, Cage enters passages from famous literary works into a computer. The machine then outputs randomly juggled words and phrases which Cage melds into a speech...