Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pity. His only problem was that he was born too soon. Nowadays, his Beacon Hill accent and Andover education would get him places in Boston society, where it's almost respectable to be Irish, as long as you don't talk about it. While New York is witnessing a rebirth of Irishness, the Boston Irish are moving to Milton. Wellesley, yes, even to Dover, and trying desperately to bury their past, their customs, and their culture. These days, most of the people who line Dorchester Street and West Broadway for the St. Patrick's Day Parade are Harvard undergraduates, newspaper...
...collar neighborhood, heavily Irish, made up of triple-decker wooden houses and smaller ones of brick. The district is only 1% black; Southie's 2,000 students include exactly one black, a West Indian girl who says she survives at the school "because I speak with a foreign accent." Students tell a story of some whites dangling a black youth out a third-floor window, and Bernie O'Rourke says, "I don't see why any colored in this district would want to come here. They'd be harassed...
...absolute tea-fiend. Get me some immediately, or else I shall have to inject it into my veins." (Take that damn foreigner down to Harlem.) A refined version of the feline eyes, two-coloured hair, the endearingly bumpy nose projected on the movie-screen. The Oxford accent, my dear, of course unmistakable: but not an affected one. Rather the natural tones of the Oxonian graduate, the eternal college boy who likes to reminisce affectionately but unpretentiously about his undergraduate days...
...Simon Moro has been rejected by a magazine. To make it acceptable, Williams then undertakes a paper chase through notes and memory. The result is the novel, the whole (though not necessarily verifiable) truth about Simon Moro, whose own identity is a holism of flackery and confused truths. His accent is Central European, his interests are Hapsburgian kinky. He began his career in Austria but was actually born in Vienna, N.J. A nice touch. Fittingly, one of Moro's last attempts to reawaken America to the majesty of terror occurs on the Tonight show. A great touch. With their...
...Englishwoman, Daphne Manners, who is attacked by Indians in the Bibighar Gardens in Mayapore in 1942. The wrong men are arrested, including Hari Kumar, Miss Manners' lover, a displaced and dispossessed youth whose brown face makes him invisible to English society, but whose English public school education and accent set him apart from the Indian culture. To the colonial English, Kumar's association with Daphne Manners is intolerable; it is especially painful to the district superintendent of police, Ronald Merrick, who has himself proposed marriage to the girl. Merrick conducts his interrogation with a cruelty compounded by racism...