Word: accents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turned out, Faulkner and the students had plenty to say to each other. He had no formal teaching schedule, instead appeared before most of the university's graduate and undergraduate classes in English to read his labyrinthian fiction in a soft, gentle voice slurred slightly by a Mississippi accent. Then he politely answered questions about such matters as the murky origins of his stories. He told of drinking corn likker for breakfast with "those unhuman people who live between the Mississippi and the levee." He once frankly admitted that his writing methods were often haphazard because "when the characters...
...highly mortal immortals of TV has been a triumph-if that is the word-of manner. Ford has the warmth and expansiveness of a Baptist revivalist, some of the relentless cracker-barrel wit of an Alben Barkley or Will Rogers. No hayseed, he has parlayed his deep-dish Southern accent and soft, self-deprecatory ways into hard money. Says his manager: "He appeals to old people with his hymns and spiritual songs. He has a tremendous appeal to little youngsters because of the name Tennessee Ernie. He is handsome enough and his low, masculine bass voice gives him sex appeal...
Involving a critical mission into enemy territory to knock out a bridge, the bulk of the film is concerned with the exploits of our brave Americano amidst a most unconvincing group of gypsies. Particularly grating is the phoney accent meant to simulate Spanish, ably seconded by the blatant and ill-written dialogue. No effort is made to indicate fully rounded characters; both Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman turn in poor performances as Grant and Bergman, nothing else...
Insidious Influence. Lord Beaverbrook was not silenced. His Evening Standard retorted: "A lame reply to those who criticize Channel 9's American accent. The influence is most insidious and gives serious cause for complaint . . . The U.S. puts its views in a famous program: the Voice of America. There is no need for Sir Robert to double this role...
Cameron Prud'homme, in the part of the captain, also has his book-inspired troubles. He is inflicted with a Swedish accent which, it must be admitted, was O'Neill's idea. Prud'homme struggles valiantly, and on the whole with success. As for the sailor, George Wallace, he looks as muscular and manly as a musical comedy leading man has to; and he also has a good singing voice, a fact which he demonstrates in Merrill's best song, Look...