Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anecdotal speech about her 30 year-career, Stahl, 58, accepted the award, which is to honor her lifetime achievement as an investigative journalist...
...Ever since then," Stahl said in her speech, "I've been fascinating by the power of pictures...
...survive for 26,445 minutes / the channel 5 news covered the university hall rally--its top story-- for 3 minutes / wrigley field was kept in the dark for 39,072,960 minutes / bruce springsteen and the e street band reunite in 41,760 minutes / lamar alexander's first speech of his campaign for presidency lasted 25 minutes / a flight to cancun for spring break takes 316 minutes / and we can turn our clocks ahead for daylight savings in 34,560 minutes
...make this admission with confidence. I accept my tendency to bumble with words and feel inclined to defend my often incoherent speech. I have no pretensions about my way of speaking. It is not that my thoughts are too complex to articulate, nor is my soul profaned in base expression--at Harvard I have simply developed a distaste for the "stylized-explicit," precision vocabulary that evades making any point at all. Section superstars, masters of this technique, have essentially unlocked the secret of the horoscope--by expressing generic thoughts with seemingly specific words, they magically persuade all those willing. While...
Drowning out speech is a tactic of intimidation. Since the students obviously felt that the Faculty was subject to intimidation, what does this tell us about the moral climate we have spawned? Is it simply coincidence that the Faculty voted according to the demonstrators' wishes, or did the students expect their intimidation to work? Will this now encourage greater contempt for a faculty that is presumed to vote according to the dictates of a mob? Although Faculty may well have cast their votes irrespective of the chanting, the demonstrators ensured the corruption of the process, cultivating disrespect for the deliberative...