Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charles de Gaulle, who maintained a haughtily arrogant mien throughout his eight-day visit to the U.S. in 1960. Turning to Ford, Giscard said, "Now, Mr. President, permit me to be my own interpreter," and he proceeded to give his nation's greetings entirely in English. When he spoke of both countries' "identical passion for independence and liberty," it was with a heavy accent. But President Giscard had gone to the trouble of taking English lessons for two years-sometimes by listening...
Elizabeth Moynihan said yesterday that she spoke to her husband early yesterday morning, and that he instructed her to deny the report that he had announced his candidacy...
Reza Baraheni, Iran's most prominent modern poet and literary critic, spoke February 26 at a meeting in defense of Iranian political prisoners. The meeting, held at Columbia University in New York and attended by 300 persons, was sponsored by the Committee for Artistic and Intellectual Freedom in Iran [CAIFI...
...convinced. But she engaged me; you only have to read the book to see how engaging she can be. If she uses phrases like "And, listen" or "Truly, then" when addressing the reader in the preface, imagine what she was like in this echoing, reflecting space where we spoke. Despite my reservations, I found myself fighting the sort of verbal duel to which Fallaci loves to challenge others, and what is more, fighting with her own weapons: taking things she has said in different situations and putting them together to formulate her answer, attacking her to get a response, creating...
HELLMAN'S is a story of simple heroism--a courageous stance in a cowardly time. In her letter to the committee Hellman spoke of the "simple rules of human decency," and she writes that she feels all she did was to follow these simple rules. As a result of her action she lived for months with the threat of jail hanging over her life; she was blacklisted, spied upon, impoverished, forced to sell her home. Her story is the stuff of which martyrs are made...