Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME'S apologies to high-standing Dr. Kopetzky, whose personal loyalty to his Hippocratic Oath TIME did not question. Dr. Kopetzky said in his speech: "Where recompense is not suit ably graduated for human endeavor, the desire to excel diminishes and finally there is no adequate stimulus for endeavor." TIME further erred in reporting that Dr. Kopetzky had for months been criticizing the National Health Program. The critic was The New York Medical Week (Dr. Kopetzky, editor...
...self-effacing Farley boomlet began last month with a speech by him at Lynchburg, Va., home of irrevocably anti-Roosevelt old Carter Glass. Mr. Farley there swore fealty once more to Franklin Roosevelt, saluted his humanitarian aims, kept silence regarding the President's economic surrealism. Same week in Albany, Jim Farley's friends moved to tie up for him the New York delegation to the 1940 Democratic National Convention...
Eventually paroled, Robert entered a teachers' college at Tempe, Ariz. His classmates found him hard to understand, envied his ability to wangle high marks with hardly any study. His teacher of public speaking was puzzled when Robert handed in an outline for a speech entitled "Murder," describing a "perfect crime." Recently Robert's acquaintances noticed that he was acting even more queerly than usual. He moved out of his dormitory, took a room in a hotel...
...allegedly born in a confidential memo of Adolf Augustus Berle whose present job as Assistant Secretary of State does not prevent him from braintrusting all over the lot. It soon fell out of the arms of its nurse, Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins, who in his oversold Des Moines speech last February failed to give it anything but words to teethe on. Last week those who should have loved the baby most dearly, shoved it in the face as a hopeless, backward brat...
...Joyce's method is new. Dreams exist as sensation or impression, not as speech. Words are spoken in dreams, but they are usually not the words of waking life, may be capable of multiple meanings, or may even be understood in several different senses by the same dreamer at the same moment. Since dreams take place in a state of suspended consciousness, out of which language itself arises, Joyce creates, in Finnegans Wake, a dream language to communicate the dream itself...