Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ulpan--An Intensive Course in Modern Spoken Hebrew for Beginners...
Barber does not scoff at any detail. He believes everything about a man is revealing-the veins in his forehead, his eyelids, his hands, his body language. This week Barber is pondering how inspiring, articulate, wordy, clever, devious, plain-spoken and hesitant each man emerged. Most important to Barber is how the substance of what Ford and Carter said relates to their pasts. What Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter promise for America is apt to evolve in some proportion to how firmly these ideas are rooted in their lives...
...express his dismay at the candidate's gratuitous slap at her late husband, an action reminiscent of less serious barbs Carter has hurled in the past at Humphrey, George Wallace and Edward Kennedy. Carter quickly called Mrs. Johnson to emphasize that he admired her husband and had spoken favorably of him elsewhere in the interview, but did not apologize, according to intimates of L.B.J.'s widow. Lady Bird described herself through an aide as "hurt and perplexed." The timing could hardly have been worse. Rosalynn Carter was scheduled to make campaign appearances with Lady Bird in Texas while...
...that succeeded Allende, Letelier was freed in mid-1975. Returning to Washington as an economist at the Institute for Policy Studies, a self-styled radical think tank where the Moffitts also worked, Letelier had begun calling for unity among opponents of "fascism in Chile." Early in September, he had spoken out against the junta at a benefit concert in Manhattan for Chilean refugees. Just before that concert, the junta revoked his citizenship, accusing him of "grave crimes against the essential interests of the state." Eleven days afterward, he was dead...
...performer, rather than the medium of the body, became her starting point. Indeterminate structures gave way to melodramatic narrative. The issue of perception broadened into a concern with media: how to "warp" an audience's view of situations on stage through the choice of medium (printed text, spoken text, film); how to distance blatantly private experience through the interjection of cliche or pop cuture. Work 1961-73 itself comes out of the same sort of questioning: in what form to cast the fiction of the self...