Word: accents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Those of you who have read TIME for, say, ten years or so are accustomed to seeing departments come and go, or change, as the accent on the news changed. You will recall, for instance, that in the May 1, 1939 issue TIME'S editors introduced a new, occasional department, Background For War, dedicated to the proposition that world war was close at hand and that you would understand it better if we reviewed the events which led up to it. The week the German Wehrmacht invaded Poland Background gave way to another new department, World...
...Unless you consider Maria Montez the most fascinating women who ever lived, which I do not, the Atlantic image falls let. Miss Montez carefully avoids any acting and just stares blankly like a hungry cow. She seeks charm by making her clothes from veils and by using a Spanish accent, but Jean Pierre Aumont triumphs completely in the battle of the accents, and all Maria has left are a few sexy poses...
...Military Government's newspaper in Germany, Munich's daily Die Neue Zeitung is supposed to speak with a U.S. accent (TIME, Nov. 29). Last week anti-Nazi Germans thought Die Neue Zeitung was speaking in the same guttural nationalist accents that General Lucius D. Clay has been inveighing against recently. Said the U.S.-licensed Frankfurter Rundschau: "Certain [Germans] smile when they read Die Neue Zeitung, as they can find there everything they think and do not dare to say . . . Whether they read the column called 'Observer' or the letterbox 'The Free Word' they will...
...China's Commander in Chief and President rose to his feet from a sofa in the corner of the room. Slowly, without show of emotion, he made the announcement that all had expected: he would leave Nanking and go to his native home. Then in his choppy Ningpo accent he read from a formal statement...
Commenting on Buck's findings, Frederick C. Packard '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, stated that the Harvard accent, far from omitting the "R," puts it just right. The "ah" sound in Hahvuhd is actually the best combination of the "A" and "R" sounds...