Word: accents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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James Shuman, who plays Bill, a slum-bred dress designer, does the most emoting and hence the least satisfactory job of acting. With gestures, with whines, with studied intonation he works to paint a figure only outlined by the playwright. Moreover, his English accent often holds up only at the beginnings and ends of sentences, leaving him to conduct the middles in harsh American...
Breadwinner. Vivien's physical domination of the stage comes from matchless body control, the result of ballet training, which she began at the age of three with her mother, a dance teacher. She had no drama coaching except for elocution lessons to correct her Manchester accent. She met Pinter, who himself started as an actor, while touring the provinces with a Shakespearean troupe. Their marriage in 1956 gave Pinter a sure breadwinner in the house and enabled him to try playwriting. Today they own a splendid five-story Georgian town house overlooking Regent's Park in London...
...Davis lives in a modest century-old house in London with his Persian wife Shamsi and their two-month old son. In September, he will become musical director of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the youngest conductor ever appointed to the prestigious job. Not surprisingly, he scoffs at the accent on his youth. He insists that he is already experiencing "the odd and beautiful glimpses of objectivity" that come with advancing years. "When you are young you are attacked by music as a disease, and you try to get something out of it that it can't possibly give...
...There's a difference between us and them" says one veteran who returned to college this fall as a junior after a two-year "leave of absence" in the Army. "It's not just a matter of age or accent. It's a question of living--what the military puts you through, and does...
...million voices. What the voices say is not necessarily what the generation believes, and what it believes is not necessarily what it will act on. Yet each generation has some features that are more significant than others; each has a quality as distinctive as a man's accent, each makes a statement to the future, each leaves behind a picture of itself...