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Cambridge Orations 1982–1993: A Selection

Cambridge Orations 1982–1993: A Selection


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James Diggle was the official Orator of the University of Cambridge from 1982 to 1993. This book presents a selection of fifty of the Latin speeches which he delivered during those years in praise of a variety of distinguished people on the occasion of their receiving Honorary Degrees. The graduands range from writers (Borges, Gordimer, Ted Hughes, Iris Murdoch) to scientists (Stephen Hawking, James Watson) to musicians (Janet Baker, Jessye Norman) to sculptors (Caro, Frink) to actors (Guinness) and royalty (the King of Spain), to philosophers (Derrida) and many others. The speeches themselves, models of wit and verbal dexterity, demonstrating the adaptability of Latin to the expression of modern ideas, are accompanied by English versions of complementary skill. The volume opens with an essay on the history and nature of the office of Orator in Cambridge.

Table of Contents:
1. Sir Michael Francis Atiyah; 2. David Frederick Attenborough; 3. Jorge Luis Borges; 4. Sir Ronald Syme; 5. Dame Janet Abbott Baker; 6. Hans Kung; 7. Kenneth Joseph Arrow; 8. Anthony Alfred Caro; 9. George Albert Clarke; 10. Dame Cicely Saunders; 11. Walter Heinrich Munk; 12. Edward James Hughes; 14. Gregory Vlastos; 15. Mary Douglas Leakey; 16. William Owen Chadwick; 17. Witold Lutoslawski; 18. Donald Oliver Baron Soper; 19. Dame Alice Rosemary Murray; 20. Alfred Alistair Cooke; 21. Dame Elisabeth Frink; 22. His Majesty Don Juan Carlos I, King of Spain; 23. Flora Eileen McLeod Carey; 24. Sue Baroness Ryder of Warsaw; 25. Stephen William Hawking; 26. Jessye Norman; 27. Andrew Ronald Blackwood; 28. Alfred Harry King; 29. Helen Suzman; 30. Sir Charles William Oatley; 31. Francis Leonard Baron Tombs of Brailes; 32. Georges Michel Claude Duby; 33. Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin; 34. Sir Lionel Alexander Bethune (Alastair) Pilkington; 35. Mary Robinson; 36. Paul Erdos; 37. Sir Alec Guinness; 38. Stefan Heym; 39. Sir John Leslie Martin; 40. Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton; 41. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza; 42. Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield; 43. Jacques Derrida; 44. Nadine Gordimer; 45. Sir Robert Yewdall Jennings; 46. David Kwok Po Li; 47. George Baron Porter of Luddenham; 48. Dame Margaret Elizabeth Harvey Turner-Warwick; 49. James Dewey Watson; 50. Maurice Vincent Wilkes; 51. Dame Jean Iris Murdoch.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780521466189
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Height: 255 mm
  • No of Pages: 128
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Weight: 286 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0521466180
  • Publisher Date: 17 Mar 1994
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Selection
  • Width: 180 mm


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