Word: speech
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...downtown Chicago plaza, discussion centered frantically on whether it was a woman, a dog, or a bird. Newspapers covered the controversy greedily and people who finally felt they had identified it were at last able to react. When Dylan Thomas spoke at MIT in 1953, his lyrically eccentric speech was met with silence by an audience of what must have been tightlipped students and professors who seemed incredulous that the talk was witty, ingenious blasphemy-and nothing more. The misdirected arguments over the nouvelle vague in cinema, for a last example, almost constitute an affront to the cinematic...
...When Nixon took office, he ordered a comprehensive review of United States chemical and biological warfare policy after nerve gas accidents, such as one killing 6000 sheep in Utah. The review, undertaken by the National Security Council and the appropriate Executive departments, resulted in Nixon's major policy speech on November 25, 1969, in which he promised to resubmit the Geneva Protocol of 1925 to the Senate...
Eisaku Sato's dream, as he expressed it in a speech two weeks ago, is to make the 1970s "an era when Japan's na tional power will carry unprecedented weight in world affairs." Japan should be a "content but not arrogant" coun try, he said, whose example would in spire "the whole world to agree that the human race is far richer for Ja pan's existence." Whether Japan can serve as a model for the rest of the world, or even the rest of Asia, is, how ever, doubtful. In climate, in resources, but above...
Aware of these sentiments, Rogers was clearly on edge as his military 707 neared Lagos; he wrote his arrival speech, had it typed, then tore it up and rewrote it. In conversations on the plane, he stumbled over some words. At the airport, he nervously greeted Rear Admiral J.E.A. Wey, acting Foreign Minister, as "General," an error that he never corrected...
...everyday habits and gestures are intended to demonstrate the uses of power. Once, while addressing students at an Eastern college in the campus chapel, he lit up a cigarette. The college president rose to tell him that smoking was not allowed, whereupon Alinsky started to leave. "No smoking, no speech," he announced. The embarrassed president at once relented: though having made his point, Alinsky refrained from smoking. He upholds the public's right to good service in restaurants; to get attention, he will throw a glass on the floor or bellow insults at the waiter...