Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Very Much Alive. At last year's carefully sanitized rites, the official speaker took the occasion to rail against Israel. Among those upset by the performance was a 33-year-old radio engineer named Boris Kochubiyevsky. He protested: "Here lies a part of the Jewish people." When a bystander said, "Too bad they didn't get the rest," Kochubiyevsky (whose parents died with the other Kiev Jews in 1941) began arguing with him. At one point, he complained that because he was a Jew "no one in this country considers me a fellow Russian." Kochubiyevsky should have limited...
...popularity with students and faculty, left it up to individual professors whether to hold classes. The boycott proposal has already been endorsed by the departments of psychology, chemistry and Romance studies, and moratorium organizers lined up a leading war critic, Republican Senator Charles Goodell of New York, as the speaker at a peace rally...
Seymour Martin Lipset-who had been one the original sponsors of the convocation-asked the group to recognize that the 100 people left in the hall were not in any way representative of the Faculty. Another speaker said that "so many people have left that it would be impossible to interpret any action we take. The strategy of the convocation has stumbled to its knees...
...characters in The Concept first came out on stage stripped down to their psyches, screaming "I'm lonely," "I'm afraid," "I'm angry," "I hate you." The cacophony recalled a Greek chorus. It seemed ten times more terrible than the wails of Trojan women, because each speaker was in a secluded hell. Only when they came together in a football huddle could they be silent...
...this summer that Nader never sleeps, rarely eats, and only takes time off from his work to visit his mother in Connecticut. Another man pointed out the spot on F Street in downtown Washington where Nader supposedly disappeared one sunny day, only to emerge two hours later on a speaker's podium in California...