Word: accents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Campus Fixture. Royal's Grapes of Wrath accent is no affectation. He grew up in Hollis, Okla. (pop. 3,006), on the edge of the state's dust bowl. He and his three brothers and one sister had to sleep with wet rags across their faces to filter the air they breathed. "We had a little place right on Highway 62," he recalls. "I used to stand in the front yard and watch the trucks go by, jammed with people heading for California...
...Marianne Parker, an attractive young women with a Swedish accent, had just finished the first day of her graduate school comprehensives at Tufts. We talked about her experiences at Planned Parenthood with the unfortunate unpredictability of female physiology...
...melody lines and the whole thing still makes beautiful sense. Or how else to explain the presence of "Oh Darling" on the album, a song which would have been no more than a flat 1950's period piece if not for the breathtaking ripples of drums and piano that accent it? All the music on Abbey Road is vaguely familiar in broad outline but it might as well have not been for all the good it does anyone trying to put the album down for that reason...
...join the Harvard coterie until 1954. He was born with a flat twang accent in 1928 in Fort Worth and worked through an M. A. at U. C. L. A. on a Native Son of the Golden West fellowship. With a new doctorate he spent the Korean War as an historian for the Joints Chiefs of Staff. In 1954 he came to Harvard as an instructor and has wandered up the academic hierarchy to full professor...
...opener last week proved the buyer's wisdom. The show was introduced by a miniskirted blonde, one Louisa Moritz, a sort of Goldie Hawn with a Judy Holliday accent. Louisa sashayed through the rest of the program all too obviously deepening her rapport with the host. Next, in what is to be the series' standard format. Namath and Schaap quipped and kibitzed through film clips of the Jets' latest game. Dick reveled in the miscues, while Joe extolled the "pure grace" of his own passing style. Namath was more modest about his fluffs as a TV rookie...