Word: speech
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hour meeting yesterday the Committee reached decisions in the cases of four white students charged with restricting Dean May's freedom of speech and movement during an OBU demonstration on December...
...that land and the peoples who belonged to it forms the last section of the film. Stills of the treaty ceremonies are intercut with very fast shots of factories while some important voice of the period urges the Indians to "accept the spirit of the American people." His speech is drowned out by machine sounds and there follow superimpositions of factories and barbed wire, of the trains that shuttled plains tribes to marshland, over close-ups of aged Indian faces. One man appears to be dying, or trying to sleep, turning his head back and forth over the industrialized landscape...
Unless he is off making another speech, Commoner leaves the office by 6 p.m. and walks a mile and a half to his Mediterranean-style house, where he has a vodka on the rocks with his wife Gloria, a pretty New Yorker who majored in psychology at Oberlin. Gloria once gave him a bicycle to get home faster, but he prefers to walk because "it's a great time to use your head." It also keeps his 5-ft. 11-in. frame trim. Now that his two grown children have left home, he and his wife actually...
...visit and the speech will mark a return to political activism for McCarthy," Peretz commented Saturday. Since the 1968 campaign McCarthy has remained relatively quiet on the war except for Moratorium speeches last Fall...
...students have been charged with interfering with the normal processes of the University and obstructing Dean May's freedom of speech and movement. Even within these dicta-the Committee's own terms-punishment would be an absurdity. Yelling at a Dean who is reading an eviction order over a loud speaker hardly constitutes an interference with normal University processes. And, since the demonstrators neither rendered Dean May's statement inaudible to the occupiers of the building nor prevented the Dean from walking away after he had finished, it would be rather difficult to hold the demonstrators responsible for obstructing...