Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still find Edo Marion, on old world fencing master, who single-handedly keeps enough people returning to fencing year after year at Harvard to maintain a competitive program. Edo, who after 25 years at Harvard, still has an accent one could find in the market district of Prague, who talks more and more rapidly with each succeeding year and demands more and more concentration to understand, who is a humanitarian and an artist first and a coach second, who punctuates his nearly-unintelligible stream of consciousness conversations with nostalgic recollections of Europe and his variable and impressive career...
...Mackintosh Man. John Huston's newest film. A convoluted and badly constructed plot moves British intelligence to send agent Paul Newman to jail, in order to infiltrate a ring which arranges prison breaks. Fine acting by James Mason, and beautiful Dominique Sanda, whose French accent sometimes gets in the way of her lines, cannot save this film. At the Pi Alley...
...first glance, Ulbricht did not look like the man destined to fulfill Lenin's dream of extending Communism to Germany. Hardly charismatic, he was short and spoke with a squeaky voice and a rasping Saxon accent. With his steel-rimmed glasses and clipped Lenin beard, he looked more like a bureaucrat than a leader. His tastes were simple. He often referred to himself as a mere cabinetmaker's apprentice, the craft he practiced before becoming a revolutionary during World War I. He used to enjoy meeting with farmers and sloshing through pigsties and muddy fields with them...
...accent on youth was not surprising. In an interview with TIME Correspondent David Aikman, Marcos last week drew some parallels between his own revolution in the Philippines and China's youth-dominated Cultural Revolution. "I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung," Marcos explained. "After so many years it was necessary to rededicate the ideals of his revolution...
Insulated from his devotees by security guards uniformed in white carnations, he spoke in a shrill, small-boy's voice, with only a trace of an accent. In his rambling, anecdotal, half-hour satsang discourse, the Guru said that happiness springs from knowledge of the kinetic energy within each person...