Word: spokenness
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...novel came from the case of Alejandro Hernandez, who was sentenced to death for the 1985 rape and murder of a young girl. Turow was alerted to the case by a friend. When he read the evidence--which largely rested on a single sentence in English spoken in the midst of a conversation in Spanish--and learned that a convicted child murderer had already confessed to the girl's killing, he says, "I became virtually unhinged. I couldn't believe this was happening in America...
...Spoken-word artist Okechukwu W. Iweala ’06 and singer Callie P.S. Watkins ’05 tied for the honor...
Iweala, who performed the fleeting rhymes and ever-changing rhythms of his spoken-word poem, “The Rail,” to intermittent audience cheers, said he was delighted to be one of the evening’s winners...
...preparing banana-leaf offerings for a Hindu cleansing ceremony. Minutes pass. Tears well in his eyes. Then slowly, painfully, Rimbawa rises from his seat on the stone step in front of the family home and shuffles into his bedroom. The interview is over. Not a single word has been spoken. "Rimbawa must rest now," says Sukarya, his brother...
...President Larry Summers has just spoken with [the first year parents] in early September so it’s very nice that he wants to officially meet them again,” said Julia G. Fox, director of the Harvard Parents’ Association...