Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press conference in July, France's President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing fielded questions while standing behind a lectern. At his second conference last week he somberly remained seated, in perhaps unconscious symbolism of the dour words to follow. Sounding like a Spengler with a French accent, for much of the conference he all but prophesied the decline of the West...
...always insistent that he wrote for the day and did not understand colleagues who were employed by "posterity." Although he knew his full worth in terms of a publisher's contract, he was a modest, self-effacing man who never forgot his roots or upgraded his accent. He was born in 1867 in Burslem, one of the "Five Towns" in the industrial north of England from which he drew almost all his best material. His family had just struggled out of the potteries to a tenuous hold in the middle class. Arnold was an insatiably self-educating fellow. When...
...fact I am from New Orleans, La., in particular, and the South in general. I don't have a southern accent. I don't wear overalls. I'm not a conservative. The Confederate flag doesn't mean much to me. But I still feel like a Southerner, and it began to bother me that I was willing to let the people around me see me not as I saw myself, but only as reflections of themselves. Perhaps that's all that's left of the old, supposedly gracious and civilized South--an ability to sense people and adapt to them...
...ready to understand Step 3: I could enjoy Harvard without denying my origins. It was a cinch. I became slightly confused, but pleased when friends would tell me that I have a California accent...
Many people ask to live with others of their own economic status (an interesting subject for some soc rel senior thesis, no doubt). Maybe some Brooks Brothers type might find it difficult to live with someone who can't appreciate his cultivated accent...