Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Vonnegut also asked the graduates to take advantage of some of youth's prerogatives. A "great swindle of our time," he said, "is that people your age are supposed to save the world. I was a graduation speaker at a little preparatory school for girls on Cape Cod a couple of weeks ago. I told the girls that they were much too young to save the world and that after they got their diplomas, they should go swimming and sailing and walking, and just fool around...
...lobbies of the other hotels in this county where rich people stay. This particular night, the Grand Ballroom was being rented by the Cuyahoga-Lake Division of the Ohio Republican Finance Committee. The purpose was a $250-a-plate dinner to raise money for the Republicans. The featured speaker was the Vice-President of the United States...
...tactics, and in the terms of the ultimate goal. The conflict is not taken lightly by the organization. Recently at M. I. T. there were fistfights between the two factions. In March, at the Boston Moratorium, run by the SMC, SDS had to storm the stage to get a speaker. Earlier, at the November March on Washington, run by the New Mob, some people crowded around the speakers platform were most reluctant to let Senator Goodell speak, and those running the show feared that the platform would be rushed, splitting of political hairs. The garments as rhetorical quibbling and upon...
...find, by the way, how grateful one is these days to anyone who announces that he eschews violence. It used to be a minimal attitude, it almost went without saying that one opposed violent methods. Now, on hearing that assurance, we are inclined to rush up to the speaker, shake his hand and embrace him as a brother moderate...
POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF BROOKLYN Walter P. Reuther, LL.D., late president of the United Auto Workers. No speaker for those who toil in oar midst can replace him, for he was that rare human individual: a man who cares enough to make change not only possible but real...