Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston leader of the Black Panther Party followed Genet with a longer speech that reiterated some of the some issues. This speaker castigated the white audience directly for its "safe radicalism," the "comfortable verbal masturbation that never gets off the level of abstractions...
...Black nationalists ask why white students move ahead for three days and then sit back in theoretical discussion of their action for three months," the speaker said. "And we don't have anything concrete to prove to them that some whites are on our side. If we can't make a unified class struggle, we'll go ahead with black liberation, and people will someday say that White America just couldn't come along...
Speaking at a press conference yesterday, Rep. James ?? the sponsor of the measure, stated that he was confident that the bill would pass the legislature. ?? Speaker ?? Bartley has assured me of his full and active support in achieving its passage," he said...
...That's an insult!" a listener shouted. "Shut up!" retorted the speaker, none other than the Deputy Leader of Britain's Labor Party. George Brown was at it again. Fresh from his remarkable performance last month on an unofficial visit to the Middle East, where he insulted both Israelis and Arabs with cheerful impartiality (TIME, Feb. 2). the outspoken ex-Foreign Secretary refused to be intimidated by his audience. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, he declared, is "a tough politician-I love her very much. But I'm fond of Nasser, too. If you want peace...
...hurting at gut level, if you know what I mean," said another speaker, a middle-aged Negro woman. She predicted cheerfully that dissolving her emotional problems "layer by layer" would probably take a lifetime. From a reformed alcoholic, the conventioneers drew vicarious inspiration. "I was an old man at 16," he said, "and now I feel like a kid. It's sure swell to see a whole bunch of kooks like us get together. It's a miracle...