Word: accents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Critic is a somewhat shapeless play, made up of two parts. The first, little more than a series of character sketches, is laid in the home of one Dangle, portrayed ably but with a faintly incongruous accent by James Matisoff. Here, in addition to Puff, another aspiring author named Fret, played by Marc Brugnoni, and a gentleman-about-town called Sneer, portrayed by Robert Jordan, needle each other with polished skill. But Thomas Teal, as a horse-faced and impassive servant, all but steals the scene as the helps his master ceremoniously slip on a corset...
Added the Duchess in a brittle BBC accent: "David, don't you remember we always said we would never talk about what might have been. In fact, I think we arranged that pact on our honeymoon...
Miss Ebeling--whose middle name was Love--measured 5 feet, 8 1-2 inches, weighed 132 pounds, and wore a size 14. She had a twinge of a southern accent, the result of spending the early years of World War II in Texas with her family...
With skill, Dictator Nasser last week sought to display a double image: an Egypt under calm discipline, an Arab world up in arms. The Arab League's political committee, ever ready to accent the negative, met in Cairo and strongly endorsed Nasser's seizure of the Suez. On the day the London conference began, all Egypt stopped work for 24 hours, and stopped talking for five minutes, in protest. About the only operation in the country unaffected by the strike was the daily passage of ships through the canal, which the government's control agency ordered...
Author Campbell puts the story in the mouth of an unnamed, fictionalized I-Wallah, but even the chairbound reader will recognize that every accent has the authentic tone of a man who has seen combat and can still think about it. The commonplace names−John or Bobby or Tommy or Donald−come completely alive, showing men at their best. Dug in among the wild rhododendron bushes, outgunned, outnumbered and outmortared, the West Kents put on a memorable show: at the end it is clear that men can be pitiable even in their finest hour...