Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They have sugar coated it, spoken of a new era, apologized for it, offered incentives anything to make the student body believes in a body that is as absurd as it is odious...
Some chose, first, to make his entry difficult, but not impossible, by placing their bodies in his path. Later, after he had spoken, we chosen to blockade his exit. We were committed in spirit as well as in word to non-violence. The police at the door heard and acknowledged the commitment. This was the situation; among the 200 present, about a dozen were standing in the loyer with arms linked, passively, before the door to the ICR. We had no possibility of conferring or denying rights. Between the South African Consul General and the Lowell House courtyard stood only...
...Reagan. Tastefully attired in black, the First Lady had just emerged from a private audience with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican last Saturday. "I've met him twice before," she noted, "but this is the first time I've seen him alone." Earlier, the First Lady had spoken of the "extra affinity" she felt with the Pope since both he and President Reagan had survived assassination attempts in the spring of 1981. She spent 25 minutes chatting with the Pontiff in his library. After the talk, the Pope greeted 15 members of Mrs. Reagan's entourage, including...
...parents; the baby born at film's end is most likely the author. And the leading lady is Foote's daughter Hallie. A vanity showcase? Hardly, for she has a fine, nonactorish face and conveys absolute emotional authority, balancing the heft of each gesture, the weight of every spoken or unspoken word. She is the one beckoning presence in this private family world...
...sail and work at whatever comes to hand. "We like to read," Will explains. "This way we can do it six to eight hours a day." Another couple, former New Yorkers, admit that living together on a boat is a discipline. "You have to move properly, speak only when spoken to. But houses are claustrophobic. On a boat the sky is part of our living space, like a tree house." To a landbound observer, a boat is like the center seat of an L-1011 on a nonstop flight to Singapore, on which one has to unpack and repack...