Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seeing-eye dog. So Saturday night this Salem-smoking refugee from West Virginia comes in and says, "That line's been rollin' and tumblin' around my head all day. We gotta write a song about gittin' bit by a seeing-eye dog." His almost-heaven West Virginia accent laid me in the aisles, where I rolled over Tim Carlson, self-described "gangly, goofy, blushing, cowlicky, smartass, shynose, sloppy lunch eater" who kneed me in the funny bone, and from then on it was bubbly giggles, side-eyed glances, uproar...
...openly with any amount of integrity, Edward Albee has consistently infused his work with an unsparing timeless fury, an articulate anger that refuses to eschew the audience. The free-flowing profanities in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? no longer shock as in the sixties but engage attention and accent the sardonic humor strung across two of the play's three grueling acts...
...Climbing," "Extinctions and Mortalities," "Vilenesses Various," "In Pursuit of Comfortable Habits," "Perils and Precautions," "Mischief and Memorabilia." The atmosphere is English manor house, gently decadent. Catalogued are innumerable pointers, all that the debonaire and naughty aristocrat must do to succeed is meticulously explained. There are rules and tips concerning accent improvement, farting in public, horsemanship, ass-kissing, being a big shot, heaping abuse, shabby people, the Old School...
...mass strike and student riot that began in 1968. Scott says that every day, he received either subtle or overt peer pressure about the Vietnam War. During these years, he says, he was popular and adjusted in school--he was elected class president and spoke French without an accent; but gangs would scream epithets like "Yankee Murderer" or "Imperialist...
Apart from the Iranians, many of the students did talk. With all but one or two, however, their fear of giving political offense led them to apparent contradictions. Aaron Poku-Appiah '78, an advanced standing sophomore, is a tall, gaunt Ghanaian, an Ashanti whose English accent has been honed from birth in London, and his summer visits there throughout his high school years. Speaking English was encouraged by his father, an Oxfordtrained criminal lawyer, Poku-Appiah says, because "it enforced the identity of elite people in Ghana...