Word: speech
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week the Senate passed a massive tax cut, the biggest since 1964, to take effect at the worst possible time for the economy. "A matchless performance in fiscal irresponsibility," declared the Administration's phrasemaker, Vice President Spiro Agnew, in a New Orleans speech. Many others agreed with him. Vermont's Senator George Aiken protested that "this Christmas tree is getting overloaded." Delaware's Senator John Williams, speaking with the objectivity of a politician who is retiring next year, blamed the "100 Santa Clauses" in the Senate. Added Williams: "When the American people get the bill, they...
...eliminating hunger. He said: "On May 6, I asserted to the Congress that 'the moment is at hand to put an end to hunger in America itself for all time.' Speaking for this Administration, I not only accept that responsibility, I claim the responsibility." In the same speech, however, Nixon betrayed a certain insensitivity in an anecdote that unwittingly underlined the vast gulf between the affluent and the hungry in America. Once when he went on a diet, Nixon told the meeting, "the doctor had told me to eat cottage cheese. The difficulty is that...
Cooper said in his speech, "We need a rebirth of spirit in America, and it will not come from deserting our commitment in Vietnam." The crowd cheer-ed enthusiastically for each speaker, but the greatest response was to Vietnam ??teran Dennis Hyte who said...
...really had the stage on fire: it was really smoldering!" Donnally Miller, one of the cast members. said after the play. The actors never were able to regain their composure on stage and laughed through their lines for the last ten minutes of the play. At the end. a speech by an old man saying, "it's a bad night to set fire to this place" left the audience laughing. A final improvised line starting, "I don't smoke; I only start fires." ended the play on a much more comic note than if it had continued normally...
After that, I went to the Central School of Speech and Drama in London for a condensed course on eighteenth century English drama, then returned to Harvard to use this training for She Stoops to Conquer. The problem with this show was that our experience with style and manners was extremely limited-Americans have no manners, we have Emily Post instead-and I was faced with the problem of either aiming for the external style or working first on the internal lives of the characters...