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Sargent's slow, careful speaking style helped him in the TV clashes against Dukakis, a sharp college debater. His relaxed manner added to the impression that the gray-haired 59-year-old was a statesman up against a young upstart.
He also inherited her brains, energy and abiding interest in good works. At Yale (class of '09) and Oxford, he shone as a scholar, debater, idealist. In 1913 Moses started work for New York's reform movement. Within six years he had worked out an ambitious plan to...
The skills demonstrated by the Harvard team in winning this championship encompass qualities very different from the debater's stereotyped image as a William F. Buckley-type of verbal gymnast. Instead, academic debate has been evolving toward emphasis on such scholarly values as thoroughness of research and analytic depth. Although...
NO politician in West Germany's postwar history has risen so fast and made so few admirers in the process as Rainer Candidus Barzel. He is almost all a politician should be: intelligent, hardworking, cool under pressure, a first-rate tactician and gifted debater. Yet Barzel suffers from a...
George was the star debater from Mitchell, S. Dak., some 30 miles away. As Eleanor puts it, "George and I met on the opposite sides of a question, 'Resolved: That Britain and the United States Should Form a Permanent Alliance.' " No one remembers who argued which side, but...