Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vehicle of Expression. The Scots view the English as wanton spendthrifts locked into an immutably snobbish class system. By contrast, they emphasize their own rough candor and their belief in a radical kind of social justice. "The only class accent in Scotland," says Poet Sorley Maclean, "is the English...
...Kissinger to go on a trip without the press would be like asking Bob Dylan to perform without The Band," says Mulliken. In Kissinger's case, the star manages to entertain those providing the background music. In his German accent, he will start a discussion this way: "Never have I known so many secrets. Never have I had such influence on world events. Yet no one has tried to seduce me with beautiful women." After a suitable dramatic pause: "It kills...
Graham Nash. Nash always seemeda bit more intelligent than Crosby, Stills, or Young, perhaps because of his English accent, perhaps because his songs were a trifle less solipsistic, perhaps--given some of the interviews the three others did--just because he talked less. Anyway, he still writes pretty songs. Sunday, March 31 at Boston Music Hall...
...taking the production of "The Rivals" with due seriousness. For instance he has completely changed the locale of "The Rivals" in order to help his actors. "We're setting it in Boston, rather than in Bath, for one very simple reason--the language. I don't believe that accent matters at all, but students seem to worry about it a lot. So I said let's remove the problem from them for a start, so they don't have to worry about how to sound like smart London or Devonshire aristocrats because the social life in Boston around about...
...brotherhood-of-beasts, Adams goes so far as to have his hlessil form an alliance with a black-headed gull and a field mouse. Alas, in an unfortunate lapse into rabbit class snobbery, the mouse drops its aitches like a cockney while the gull speaks with a bad Russian accent...