Word: accents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Sword, by the way, was a most unusual villain. He was obviously cultured, owned a vaguely-British accent, and frequently employed such radio invective as "you scoundrels" and "treacherous dogs." He also discussed his schemes with his mother, a creepy old sadist whose pulpy tones probably sent dozens of little tykes howling...
...Schwartz, however, in the preface to Genesis, allies himself with the '"morbid pedestrianism" of Wordsworth and Hardy', and a reactionary romanticism we think of as typical of the genre. He has, moreover, rehearsed a certain formalism just as Coleridge corrected Wordsworth's mistaken nations about diction: besides the 'heavy accent and the slowness' he prefers, he has elsewhere explained that it is easier to write poetry than prose which must be created since certain formulae, such as rhythm, rhyme, etc., are not made available, a priori, to the prose stylist...
Tall, strikingly handsome and always immaculately dressed, Professor Tiselius speaks 'English with about the same accent as a Minnesota Swede. Students at Uppsala affectionately call him "the film star professor." His official hobbies are sailing, modern art, music, literature. His unofficial hobby: making model aircraft with Per, his 14-year...
Before the Orchestre National goes home in December, 32 other U.S. and Canadian cities will get a chance to hear the French accent...
...horse operas. Welles could not hire any "name" actors for either their experience or box-office, so he chose his cast from radio actors. They didn't ask large salaries and could give beautiful readings of the poetry. He was allowed only one set, so he chose to accent the primitiveness of the characters by setting Inverness in a hollowed mountain. He was allowed only twenty-one days for actual filming. There was also the handicap of working with someone else's script...