Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resent what happened to me and other women like me because we spoke more slowly and pronounced words differently. I really liked my Southern accent. I'm sorry...
...years I lived in Memphis, Tennessee, and had a Southern accent. Mine wasn't Applachian hillbilly-country music Southern, nor was it the soft-petalled Junior League variety. It was just a home-grown Mississippi River vintage '53 drawl. I liked it. Felt comfortable with it. Then I came to Harvard, and grudgingly, but inevitably, surrendered my natural speech...
Freshmen women in general have a tough time being taken seriously, but an underclass woman with a Southern accent is in real trouble. Many people consider her to be stupid, per se. The assumption is that she was admitted only to satisfy Radcliffe's desire for diversity and geographical distribution. Honeyed tones and high...
...lines like "I broke in when I heard the dogs howling" and "How is your daughter and her 'nervous prostration'" and "Yes, Renfield, I offer you your soul in exchange for what you know"--but everyone carries on unflinchingly. Anne Ames and Nicholas Shorter put on fine cockney accents, and John Phillips as Renfield, whose hobby is eating flies, keeps threatening to forsake mere competence for genuine creepiness. John S. Scherlis, as Dracula himself, manages a creditable Bela Lugosi accent, though he lacks the music that saved Lugosi from monotony...
Goldfein's comedy manages the odd trick of being broad and donnish at the same time. He does Hegel with a sauerbraten accent: "Veil, now, vot ve got here? Ve got, for shtarters, ve got Descartes. Him and his Cogito, ergo sum ... Dot's an insight?" Not every one of these brief sketches works. But the author does a fine turn on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and he perceives, in an epiphany whose correctness is apparent, that Economist John Maynard Keynes wrote not only The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, but also The Myth of Sisyphus...