{"product_id":"cambridge-orations-1982-1993-a-selection-paperback-9780521466189","title":"Cambridge Orations 1982–1993; A Selection (Paperback) 9780521466189","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCambridge Orations 1982–1993\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Selection\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA selection of fifty of the Latin speeches which James Diggle delivered in praise of a variety of distinguished people on the occasion of their receiving Honorary Degrees.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames Diggle (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521466189, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 17 March 1994\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e128 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 6.9 cm, 1.99 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eJames 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 (Anthony Caro, Elisabeth Frink) to actors (Alec Guinness) and royalty (the King of Spain), to philosophers (Jacques 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Sir Michael Francis Atiyah\u003cbr\u003e 2. David Frederick Attenborough\u003cbr\u003e 3. Jorge Luis Borges\u003cbr\u003e 4. Sir Ronald Syme\u003cbr\u003e 5. Dame Janet Abbott Baker\u003cbr\u003e 6. Hans Kung\u003cbr\u003e 7. Kenneth Joseph Arrow\u003cbr\u003e 8. Anthony Alfred Caro\u003cbr\u003e 9. George Albert Clarke\u003cbr\u003e 10. Dame Cicely Saunders\u003cbr\u003e 11. Walter Heinrich Munk\u003cbr\u003e 12. Edward James Hughes\u003cbr\u003e 14. Gregory Vlastos\u003cbr\u003e 15. Mary Douglas Leakey\u003cbr\u003e 16. William Owen Chadwick\u003cbr\u003e 17. Witold Lutoslawski\u003cbr\u003e 18. Donald Oliver Baron Soper\u003cbr\u003e 19. Dame Alice Rosemary Murray\u003cbr\u003e 20. Alfred Alistair Cooke\u003cbr\u003e 21. Dame Elisabeth Frink\u003cbr\u003e 22. His Majesty Don Juan Carlos I, King of Spain\u003cbr\u003e 23. Flora Eileen McLeod Carey\u003cbr\u003e 24. Sue Baroness Ryder of Warsaw\u003cbr\u003e 25. Stephen William Hawking\u003cbr\u003e 26. Jessye Norman\u003cbr\u003e 27. Andrew Ronald Blackwood\u003cbr\u003e 28. Alfred Harry King\u003cbr\u003e 29. Helen Suzman\u003cbr\u003e 30. Sir Charles William Oatley\u003cbr\u003e 31. Francis Leonard Baron Tombs of Brailes\u003cbr\u003e 32. Georges Michel Claude Duby\u003cbr\u003e 33. Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin\u003cbr\u003e 34. Sir Lionel Alexander Bethune (Alastair) Pilkington\u003cbr\u003e 35. Mary Robinson\u003cbr\u003e 36. Paul Erdos\u003cbr\u003e 37. Sir Alec Guinness\u003cbr\u003e 38. Stefan Heym\u003cbr\u003e 39. Sir John Leslie Martin\u003cbr\u003e 40. Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton\u003cbr\u003e 41. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza\u003cbr\u003e 42. Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield\u003cbr\u003e 43. Jacques Derrida\u003cbr\u003e 44. Nadine Gordimer\u003cbr\u003e 45. Sir Robert Yewdall Jennings\u003cbr\u003e 46. David Kwok Po Li\u003cbr\u003e 47. George Baron Porter of Luddenham\u003cbr\u003e 48. Dame Margaret Elizabeth Harvey Turner-Warwick\u003cbr\u003e 49. James Dewey Watson\u003cbr\u003e 50. Maurice Vincent Wilkes\u003cbr\u003e 51. 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