Orations Worth Ovations: The Great Dictator
If Adolf Hitler banned a film, it’s likely worth watching. Read about how Charlie Chaplin outdid and outraged Hitler with a single five-minute speech.
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Orations Worth Ovations: When Tears Speak Louder Than Words
Our children can now buy bulletproof backpacks at back-to-school sales, and teachers set gun safety procedures to children’s tunes. Former intern Ramya Prabhakar analyzes President Obama’s Newtown speech to cope with the tragedy of mass shootings.
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Lyndon Johnson’s Unsung Role in Sending Americans to the Moon
It was John F. Kennedy, of course, who issued the call, but no one did more than L.B.J. to commit the U.S. to landing men on the moon and returning them safely to earth.
Essay for The New Yorker
Orations Worth Ovations: Caps and Gowns Behind Barbed Wire
Former West Wing Writers intern Ezra Stoller writes about Marion Konishi’s high school commencement speech — which she delivered while incarcerated at Granada Relocation Center in 1943.
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