Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...military attache in Berlin, he was given a medal by his Nazi hosts and later ignored public appeals to repudiate and return it. (He had in fact sent it to a museum, as he did other awards he received throughout his life.) Finally, and disastrously, my father made a speech in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1941, identifying as the three groups unwisely advocating U.S. entry into the war "the British, the Roosevelt Administration and the Jews...
...family, the Spencers, that is at least as old as the British royal family and considers itself in some ways to be rather grander. It is not rare in England to hear the Spencers' Englishness compared favorably with the "foreign" (German) background of the Windsors. The famous speech, given by Diana's younger brother, the Earl of Spencer, at her funeral in London, with its barely contained hostility toward his royal in-laws, moved many people at the time but was in fact an exercise of extraordinary hauteur...
...supervisors, many people--straight and gay--had to adjust to a new reality he embodied: that a gay person could live an honest life and succeed. That laborious adjustment plods on--now forward, now backward--though with every gay character to emerge on TV and with every presidential speech to a gay group, its eventual outcome favoring equality seems clear...
After leaving Greenspan's speech, theprotesters will gather at Holyoke Center to hear aseries of speeches...
...know the substance of his speech. I can only say that it is obviously a senior honor to be at Harvard and it's very clear he's looking forward to it with a great deal of anticipation," she says. "He feels honored, I'm sure, to be a part of a memorable occasion for all of the graduates and their friends and family...