My father's friend, Ted Windt, who was professor emeritus of political rhetoric and a former chair of Pitt's Department of Communication = I wonder what he would think of today's presidential times & rhetoric needed, useful & what we really would remember about them via history???
So many Saturday afternoons were spent with me as a teenager listening to professor Windt and my father talk while th...ey grilled steaks (@ our indoor grilling station) worked, had cocktails and wine. .. And Ted was there for some functions too. .. (He encouraged my poetry confirming for my father that I was a poet . .. They opened doors for me that I refused to walk through though because I wanted to do it on my own like an A*$).
Presidents and Protesters : Political Rhetoric in the 1960''s Amazon.com: Presidents and Protesters : Political Rhetoric in the 1960''s: Theodore O., Jr. Windt: Books Obituary: Ted Windt / Pitt professor, expert on presidential rhetoric Tuesday, October 14, 2003 Ted Windt, a University of Pittsburgh scholar who dazzled generations of students with his passion for politics and language, died yesterday. Mr. Windt, 67, was an expert on political rhetoric and the author or editor of numerous books and articles on the subject. He had such a keen, incisive mind; his opinions were expressed with such clarity but never with harshness," Wecht said. "It was truly a great intellectual pleasure to get together with him. He would dissect issues like a scalpel." Beyond politics, Mr. Windt was an avid sports fan and a collector of 20th century American literature, with a particular interest in the works of members of the Beat Generation, such as Jack Kerouac. Best of the Roses, john mystrawhat.com & the new everyday media New Media Madness: an everyday art (coming soon on mystrawhat.com)
So many Saturday afternoons were spent with me as a teenager listening to professor Windt and my father talk while th...ey grilled steaks (@ our indoor grilling station) worked, had cocktails and wine. .. And Ted was there for some functions too. .. (He encouraged my poetry confirming for my father that I was a poet . .. They opened doors for me that I refused to walk through though because I wanted to do it on my own like an A*$).
Presidents and Protesters : Political Rhetoric in the 1960''s Amazon.com: Presidents and Protesters : Political Rhetoric in the 1960''s: Theodore O., Jr. Windt: Books
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
Ted Windt, a University of Pittsburgh scholar who dazzled generations of students with his passion for politics and language, died yesterday.
Mr. Windt, 67, was an expert on political rhetoric and the author or editor of numerous books and articles on the subject.
He had such a keen, incisive mind; his opinions were expressed with such clarity but never with harshness," Wecht said. "It was truly a great intellectual pleasure to get together with him. He would dissect issues like a scalpel."
Beyond politics, Mr. Windt was an avid sports fan and a collector of 20th century American literature, with a particular interest in the works of members of the Beat Generation, such as Jack Kerouac.
Best of the Roses, john
mystrawhat.com
&
the new everyday media
New Media Madness: an everyday art (coming soon on mystrawhat.com)
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I went through Professor Windt's course back in 1996 and it was one of my first classes I took after separating from a stint in the military. Tough, brazen, and to the point, Windt charged on about how he wrote countless speeches and advised presidential speech writers for Johnson and a few other leaders. He brought in Cyril Wecht, who, at the time, was Allegheny County's Coroner; which advised the Warren Commission on the JFK Assassination. Wecht offered his personal theories of who really killed JFK, etc. Windt made this course exciting with his rhetoric about presidential rhetoric, his mystery guest speakers, and his personal accounts of dealing with the Prezs. He will always be remembered as the Presidential Rhetoric Pro.
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