Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weeks ago you sat at your high school graduation and heard some minor celebrity (or, if you were home schooled, your Uncle Ed) say how important it was to make the most of your potential. Local celebrity that you probably were, you may have even given that speech yourself. It's good advice, and you will find it repeated in these pages. See the museums, try out extracurriculars, look hard for classes you'll really like and do well in them during your first year at Harvard. But Harvard students are good listeners, so I won't bore you again...
...minutes into Greenspan's speech, audience members carrying huge red balloons began to file silently out of Tercentary Theater. The crowd included over 100 undergraduates, parents, graduate students and seniors still decked out in caps and gowns...
...themes--baseball and politics--merged nicely. Bush gave a talk in 1992 to the Republican Forum, a political club in North Dallas. "It was an amazing speech," says Jim Oberwetter, a friend who is now governmental-affairs director for Hunt Oil. "The only way I can describe it is as baseball patriotism. There was nothing political in the speech. Politics came with the person, so he did not have to talk about...
...Bush jogging partner. A famously eligible bachelor, Bush had also surprised friends by courting and marrying--in just three months--a librarian named Laura Welch, who was as reserved and knowing as he was brash and noisy. She made him promise that she would never have to give a speech. (So much for that vow.) "We campaigned the whole first year of our marriage," she says...
...best of times and the worst of possibilities--but not always in the ways you might expect. At Pine Street the yellow and white tent was donated, as were the flowers. A cerulean sky and cool morning air hung over the neighborhood's old brick buildings. Reich pondered his speech, in which he would remind the recently derelict grads that the great economy isn't trickling down to everyone; that the vagaries of life--and the inevitable economic downturn--would try them again. Couldn't he be more optimistic on this, their big day? "I'm going...