Airwaves: A Collection of Radio Editorials from the Golden AppleFordham Univ Press, 1999 - 391 páginas AirWAVES , a collection of more than thirty years of editorials and commentary given by William O'Shaughnessy, encompasses a wide spectrum of Westchester life, from politics to just plain citizens. O'Shaughnessy, hailed "The Squire of Westchester," by former governor Mario Cuomo, brings together a retrospective for the Golden Apple, Westchester County, providing the reader with not only a slice of his articulate style and graceful persona, but also an historiography of events and happenings in and around the county. |
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... looks - Lord knows how far he could go in this republic if , somehow , he could overcome his terrible shyness ! Bill O'Shaughnessy can't describe a scene as well as Bres- lin . He's not as " easy " a writer as Pete Hamill . But when ...
... looks - Lord knows how far he could go in this republic if , somehow , he could overcome his terrible shyness ! Bill O'Shaughnessy can't describe a scene as well as Bres- lin . He's not as " easy " a writer as Pete Hamill . But when ...
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... looks every inch the Westchester patrician . However , he is quick and proud to say that he " spent fifteen years trying to get that marvelous Italian fellow from Queens - Mario Cuomo - into the damn White House . " In spite of the fact ...
... looks every inch the Westchester patrician . However , he is quick and proud to say that he " spent fifteen years trying to get that marvelous Italian fellow from Queens - Mario Cuomo - into the damn White House . " In spite of the fact ...
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... look right at you and say he is concerned about his country . He's late with this , very late . But we've supported him in the past , and we support him now . Maybe selecting a guy for president because he is courageous , he can look ...
... look right at you and say he is concerned about his country . He's late with this , very late . But we've supported him in the past , and we support him now . Maybe selecting a guy for president because he is courageous , he can look ...
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... look curiously like Gerald Ford and Les Arends . And lest we forget , one in three of these delegates was there four years ago , in San Francisco , when this major political party nominated a man named Barry Goldwater to be President of ...
... look curiously like Gerald Ford and Les Arends . And lest we forget , one in three of these delegates was there four years ago , in San Francisco , when this major political party nominated a man named Barry Goldwater to be President of ...
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... look at what the colored folks ( as they are called down here ) were up to . As Breslin , who worries about big city streets , sat swearing at the Georgia delegates with their sport shirts and crew cuts and tassel loafers , word spread ...
... look at what the colored folks ( as they are called down here ) were up to . As Breslin , who worries about big city streets , sat swearing at the Georgia delegates with their sport shirts and crew cuts and tassel loafers , word spread ...
Contenido
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Mario Matthew Cuomo | 193 |
To Life | 227 |
The First Amendment | 239 |
Broadcasting and the Press | 271 |
Assassinations | 303 |
OShaughnessy at the Podium | 317 |
Términos y frases comunes
Albany Alex Norton Alvin Ruskin America Bellantoni Bill Boccardi Breslin broadcasters called Carey chairman Charles Church Club Colavita damn Daronco Democratic Draddy Eastchester father Fredman George Gioffre governor graceful Hugh Iona Iona College Irish Jack Sullivan Jimmy Jimmy Cannon judge Kelly Kennedy kids knew Koch last night listen lives look Louis Boccardi Luddy Malcolm Wilson Mario Cuomo Marty Servo Mayor Michaelian morning Mount Vernon named Nancy nation neighbors Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Nelson Rockefeller never newspaper O'Shaughnessy Ossie Davis party political politicians president priest radio station remember Republican restaurant Richard Nixon Rocco Rochelle Senator Sirio Maccioni songs story Street talk Teddy Greene television tell things tion told Tony Toots Toots Shor town townie week Westchester Whitney William WNEW wonderful words WVOX yesterday York young
Pasajes populares
Página 312 - No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy...
Página 261 - We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
Página 226 - She puts her hands to the distaff, and her fingers ply the spindle. She reaches out her hands to the poor, and extends her arms to the needy.
Página 168 - Sadly, even after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965...
Página 9 - If there ever could be a proper time for mere catch arguments, that time surely is not now. In times like the present men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.
Página 147 - ... the work of Christmas begins: to find the lost, to heal the broken, to feed the hungry, to release the prisoner, to rebuild the nations, to bring peace among brothers, to make music in the heart.