Word: accents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even some of the foggier lines seemed to mean something when he speaks them. In the part of Private David King, Michael Harwood is just noisy and energetic enough to keep things alive. Earle Edgerton encumbers his characterization of the aging Private Tim Meadows with an unconvincing Cockney accent, but his performance improves when he drops it near the end of the play. The generally impressive cast is rounded out by James Rieger...
...Huntsville, Ala., Rees ran into an enemy turned friend. He was a wartime scientist at Peenemünde, where Germans developed their V-25. When Rees asked the scientist if he was at Peenemünde on Aug. 28, 1944, he thought a moment, then cried in a deep accent: "Ach, I sure was! The bombers came, and they hit my house and knocked me out of bed and almost killed me." Rees explained that he was there, too, as a radio-operator-gunner...
...remarkable argument that God made the joints of the arm just long enough to carry a glass to the mouth without missing the mark. He had his era's versatility, the tinkering curiosity, the sublime belief in the answerability of all questions-but all that with a Philadelphia accent of thrift and humor. Even crusty New Englander John Adams, seemingly too patrician to accept a self-made boy at his true worth, had to admit: "There was scarcely a peasant or a citizen, a valet de chambre, coachman or footman, a lady's chambermaid or a scullion...
...team as they polished up the $78.5 billion budget that Eisenhower would have to live with in fiscal 1954 (July i, 1953 to June 30, 1954). Before the year was over, Ike abandoned what he called "feast or famine" military policy in favor of the "long haul," with its accent on nuclear air power. Dodge, for his part, pruned $10.8 billion from the Truman budget, worked out a $65.5 billion budget for fiscal 1955, then went home to Detroit,* turning the job over to the man who had been his deputy for a year, Rowland Hughes...
Will Japan ever wholly succumb to Western ballet and give up its traditional dancing? Not likely, thinks another recent visitor, Ballerina Alexandra Danilova. "Our dance is like flower, open out this way," she says, assisting her Russian accent by opening out her fists. Then, closing them again, she added: "Japanese dance is like flower, closing up this...