Fall Quarter '08: Extemporaneity
⊆ 6:03 PM by A. Liebendorfer | ˜ 2 comments »The litany of every walk to anywhere on campus:
"Excuse me. Are you registered to vote in Athens?"
I really hate public speaking, but Public Speaking is starting to grow on me.
Tammy our professor makes it a point to call the depressing state of the country to our attention every class period. There are one or two of us that I spy texting or having that glazed over look, but every time she makes her case the room gets a little grave.
Yesterday we watched famous speeches and she wanted us to take note of things. These are my favorite classes periods, ones where you can sit back, marvel and analyze.
The first was Peter Peterson addressing the House of Representatives about the economy. Who Peter Peterson is and why they named him twice, I have no idea, but I do know that he started the Peter G. Peterson Foundation and has floated above the rest of the economic know-it-all's and is as articulate as he is passionate about everything America.
His somber numbers and figures were (something I'm determined to make a cliche) like out of a movie. The people behind him moved little and moved concertedly. This set the stage for the RFK speech.
I had never seen RFK's announcement of Martin Luther King's assassination; it put me in awe. I'll leave you to the YouTube video. Everything in the speech from the Aeschylus quote to quipping that both JFK and MLK were killed by white men were incredible to me. And all of it impromptu.
It makes you wonder where old-school orators have gone. My first thought was that pundits kill our chances to witness these great moments in history. But listening to him, it's really flawless. I don't think even punditry could dissect this on-the-spot address, a hallmark to the public virtuoso of the Kennedy's.
I've witnessed dozens of responses to the Athens voting question. Some people have cut them off, asking if they have registered to vote in Athens; most or cordial to the last; I have a little wave that I've got down.
But now, it's hard not to want a share in this helter-skelter world we're inheriting.
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