Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before Lent began, Ronald Sobel became the first Jewish rabbi to enter the pulpit of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the New York City citadel of Roman Catholicism. After he spoke, hundreds of congregants strode 15 blocks up Fifth Avenue to Sobel's Temple Emanu-El-something of a cathedral for Reform Judaism-to hear Monsignor James Rigney, rector of St. Patrick's parish...
President Bok spoke briefly on "the constraints that define the limits" of the steps universities can take, saying that complaints about the quality of education should be combined with "practical ideas" on how to improve...
WHEN WILLIAM LOEB, publisher of The Manchester, New Hampshire, Union Leader, spoke to the Harvard Republican Club last semester, he praised himself profusely for accomplishing in 1972 "the greatest public service" of his career--making Senator Edmund S. Muskie cry. In view of Loeb's other achievements, this may indeed be his greatest accomplishment. But it now appears quite possible that the would be king breaker from New Hampshire may turn out to be a king maker. And the king whom William Loeb may have unintentionally announced could very well turn out to be the man he attempted to destroy...
...Nozick spoke to more than 100 people at a meeting of the Center for the Study of Social Systems...
...bitterest liberal criticism of Jackson has been over his support of the Viet Nam War. In 1970 peace activists vainly tried to defeat him in the Senate primary (he won it with 87% of the vote); when he spoke on college campuses, students pelted him with marshmallows. But Jackson is still unrepentant. Says he: "I always wanted to go in there, fight the war quickly and get out." When he decided that the U.S. could not win the war, he favored a withdrawal. Now, in a switch that may shake his conservative support by seeming to renege on his principles...