Word: accents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Norman Treigle's "tough accent" is pure New Orleans and not diluted by Brooklynese, as your account suggests [Oct. 3]. He talked that way when I knew him as a student at Loyola University of the South. So do most natives of New Orleans whose speech is not affected by the patois of rural southwestern Louisiana. When I first taught high school boys in New Orleans in 1935, I too was struck by what I thought was a Canarsie accent. The boys with the "tough accent" were mainly natives of the New Orleans "Irish Channel." As one of them...
...brought to Bangkok, and the town does not creak under the weight of the U.S. military as does Saigon. One sees few Americans, and none in uniforms. In a few bars one may find the freewheeling, CIA-paid Air America pilots, the Lord Jims of Laos. But the main accent is French. The old ochre-colored colonial buildings with their big windows and high ceilings set the architectural style. Citron pressé outsells Coca-Cola, and hamburgers hardly exist. The pace is as slow-moving as the ceiling fans, and Vientiane exudes a decadent charm that is extinct where Americans...
...Soprano. Offstage, Treigle is a tightly wound man with a gaunt face and the physique of a working bantamweight. His voice is deep, with a tough accent curiously compounded of New Orleans (where he lives) and Brooklyn (where he has never lived). "I started out as a boy soprano," he says. "I could outSills Beverly Sills, but then I turned into a bass. I dunno what kind of voice I got now. Call it a dramatic bass...
...sees to it that everyone has enough to eat. He loves music and his house revolves around song; the people whistle snatches of tunes as they moved about. But words, too, are handled lovingly: when I was there Donovan took much delight in hearing others use a Scottish accent...
...Nabors Hour (CBS). Nabors, who, as Corner Pyle, USMC, had the second-highest-rated show last season, is venturing into variety. Those who can stand Jim will discover that he has a big baritone voice in addition to the familiar grits-eating grin and the stage-rustic accent. For those who can't, the Jim Nabors Hour will be only as entertaining as its guests...