Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...bearing down on you? Filmmaker George Lucas and his soundmeister Tomlinson Holman claim that such aural thrills can be provided by their new home sound system, called THX. Holman, an audio-design engineer who created the THX (Tomlinson Holman Experiment) system widely used in theaters, has crafted a six-speaker home version that provides distortion-free sound at high volume and gives listeners the impression that the sound is surrounding them. The system will play standard videotapes and videodiscs as well as specially enhanced products...
Kovic is the first scheduled Class Day speaker to cancel. In 1968, an assassin killed the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. a little more than a month before King's scheduled Class Day appearance at Harvard. King was the first class Day speaker to be chosen by members of the sneior class...
...Georgia native typically slips into the manner of a practiced but informal public speaker, adopting a rock-steady, straight-ahead gaze when thinking--he never loses his train of thought. And not far from sight is a disarming grin, shot through with the confidence imparted by youthful success and good schooling...
According to overseer Frances FitzGerald '62, Kohl was chosen early in the fall by the overseers committee responsible for the selection of a Commencement speaker...
According to Overseer Peter H. Wood '64, the normally secretive and smooth process of choosing the Commencement speaker was somewhat rockier this year. Not all the Board members, Wood says, supported the choice of Kohl, whom Wood called a "right-wing European...