Word: accents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Look Homeward, Angel (adapted from Thomas Wolfe's novel by Ketti Frings). Few novels of any size or importance can be transferred to the stage without forfeiting an amplitude that is half their strength, a personal accent that is half their essence. Look Homeward, Angel is one of the few, and the reason is clear enough: the novel's amplitude is often the sheerest excess, its personal accent the most rioting rhetoric. For all Wolfe's great gifts, his novel was too often diminished by a craving for size, impoverished by an orgy of word-spending, made...
Arcadia with British Accent. "During the 18th century, for the first and only time in British history, an interest in and knowledge of the arts became fashionable," writes the present Duke of Wellington, for the exhibition's catalogue. The English gentry, he points out, enthusiastically studied the architectural plans Lord Burlington published of the Italian villas by Palladio, proceeded to plan their parks and redesign their stately homes, hanging the walls with Spitalfields silk and decorating them with the furniture of Chippendale. To furnish them with art, English artists labored prodigious hours at their easels...
Young teachers, Spindler said, come from middle class homes, and tend to hold "traditional" values. They accent absolute moral standards and the sanctity of the individual. The "educational subculture" of schools of education, by contrast, stresses social adjustment, Spindler stated...
...high-school days in Budapest, Teller was, as he puts it today, a "square" (pronounced, in his thick accent, "skvare"). Favorite amusements were chess, hiking, poetry and music. Among the subjects of his poems was a chum's brainy, grey-eyed younger sister, Mici (pronounced Mitzi), who shared young Teller's enthusiasm for mathematics and that special Hungarian passion, pingpong. Eventually they were married...
...little island on the Hudson. . .), "Ain't It The Truth," and "I Don't Think I'll End It All Today." She can ride one word onto several notes as perfectly as she can move her body provocatively. Unfortunately, she has trouble weaving in and out of a Jamaica accent, often waiting to lean into Caribbean pronunciation and rhythm until just before a song begins...