But his family moved away in third grade, and from that point onward, I didn't live near a kid my own age, let alone one who shared my interests. For a while I had been able to geek out with my friend Monty, playing with Mego action figures and reading comic books. In my isolated neighborhood, however, geography forced me into being a lonely kid. But no matter how hard I tried to deal with those feelings, the loudest thought in my head was a very selfish one: how could I possibly live in a world without. I was still trying to process the horrible truth that Freddie Mercury was dead. Hours later I was laying in bed, trying to go to sleep, but my brain wouldn't let me. Somehow, I made it home without crashing.
#LEND ME YOUR EARS CODE#
I have a very vague sense of staring at the same block of code all day long without typing a single character. POOF! I don't remember walking to my desk. I distinctly remember that short conversation, but everything that came after. went back to sipping his coffee and kibbitzing. AIDS." And with that nonchalant bomb dropped, D.J. My poor brain spun as it desperately tried to make sense of what I'd just heard.
#LEND ME YOUR EARS TV#
I know that stock "record scratch" sound effect that comedically signifies a person's mental discombobulation has become a very, very tired trope in movies and TV shows, but it's the only way I can adequately describe what happened to me right then. "Yo D.J.!" I returned his salute with my soda. yelled out at me from across the room, waving at me with his omnipresent mug.
As I was rounding the block of cubicles and saying my good mornings, my co-worker D.J. First thing in the morning, people from many different departments would be hanging out in this central hub, drinking coffee and shooting the breeze. When I got off the elevator, I cut through the operations center to get to my cubicle.
#LEND ME YOUR EARS SOFTWARE#
never again!) I made the short drive to my software development job after stopping for my regular weekly kickoff jumbo soda. As my cats Hoshi and Ami tucked into their breakfast, I absentmindedly noshed on some cereal. Barely a month into my legal separation from The Ex, and finally on my own for the first time ever, I woke up rested and stress-free in my new apartment. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.November 25th 1991, a Monday, started like any other weekday. And several of the speeches he includes deal with politics only indirectly: such as Louis Pasteur’s paean to scientific education, the Dalai Lama’s sermon on the "Philosophy of Compassion" and Salman Rushdie’s description of a life "Trapped inside a Metaphor." This is an invaluable reference for writers and speakers, students of history and those who simply appreciate great oratory.Ĭopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Robert Taft opposing war crimes trials after WWII) as well as its victors. The selections range widely through Western history, from Pericles’s funeral oration to fallen Greek soldiers in the Peloponnesian War, to Tony Blair "exhorting his party to fight terrorism." History has yet to pass judgment on the greatness of the most recent speeches included here, but Safire shows a broad-minded, bipartisan inclusiveness in collecting the words of Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, history’s losers (Sen. But many readers will no doubt skip his prefatory lesson in rhetoric and go right to the speeches themselves. The third edition of this comprehensive collection of oratory through the ages is appropriately edited by former presidential speechwriter Safire-a man who knows firsthand the importance of putting together the right words for the right moment. He is a member in good standing of the Judson Welliver Society of former White House speechwriters. Every Sunday his popular "On Language" column appears in the New York Times Magazine. William Safire is perhaps the most widely read and influential political columnist in America. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
A new section incorporates speeches that were never delivered: what Kennedy was scheduled to say in Dallas what Safire wrote for Nixon if the first moon landing met with disaster and what Clinton originally planned to say after his grand jury testimony but swapped for a much fiercer speech. Zanuck, General George Patton exhorting his troops before D-Day, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaking on Bush v. Bush, this latest edition includes the words of Cromwell to the "Rump Parliament," Orson Welles eulogizing Darryl F. Covering speeches from Demosthenes to George W. He is considered by many to be America's most influential political columnist and most elegant explicator of our language. It is selected, arranged, and introduced by William Safire, who honed his skills as a presidential speechwriter. An instant classic when it was first published a decade ago and now enriched by seventeen new speeches, Lend Me Your Ears contains more than two hundred outstanding moments of oratory.
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