Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other luminaries who have spoken out against impeachment at campus rallies include feminist Gloria Steinem, actor Alec Baldwin, former Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel...
...speaking the same language. This is not the case. Language at Home is in fact a complex dance of syntax and connotation. For example, a simple expression like "I see what you mean," when uttered by a local or tribal chieftain, may have a radically different meaning than when spoken by a person from a more developed area. In our native country, this phrase would ordinarily mean "I understand your ideas". If a local chief uses this phrase, however, it is more likely to translate as "Your ideas do not interest me. Go get me a Coke...
...tale takes place as Moses has gone up Mount Nebo to die. When God invites the prophet's soul out of his body, it demurs. And in the end, the Lord who has spoken through fire and water and thunder and smoke descends yet once more, and draws out the soul of Moses with a kiss...
This article, however, wasn't written to complain about past injustices. It protests continuing inequalities. To quote one of the many actresses who have written to or spoken to me about this subject: "I don't really hold it against [various current staff] that they do not see the evils they support...It's maddening. I struggle with it all the time. I walked out of the Pudding show at intermission last year and (stereotypically, perhaps, but honestly) cried...
...have spoken with my friend Campbell a total of a hundred times, yet I cannot recollect a single idea exchanged or the substance of a subject addressed. He knew that I wished him well, and I knew that he wished me the same. The day he died--before I learned that he had died--I called to him on his bike, mistaking a man of similar build and helmet for my friend. Later, when told of his death, I thought of that other man (I don't know why), and I pictured him pedaling away with a bright wave...