Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...full pages of empty sentences about the Senator. Also mentioned (once more) was the popularity of Kennedy with the younger generation. I am a high school student, but I see only a facade of the Kennedy face. Ted Kennedy is merely a boy masquerading with the face and accent of an honorable family that before has produced real men. BARBARA J. VERVILLE Tulsa...
...that fit without the slightest crowding into a 174 page book. The pieces range in length from a few pages to several lines, tiny Brautiganisms that haven't made it into his poetry collections only because the words don't rhyme. Brautigan bills them as fiction but their accent gives them away as autobiographical trivia...
...Nable's Snoopy. Not only does Nabel manage to look like a human facsimile of the darling dog, but he also has the gestures down pat, even to keeping his teeth bared while asleep. He surpasses even his master in over-sensitivity and sentimentality, and becomes, with his R.A.F. accent and adventure fantasies, the most human of the entire company. His vaudeville number, "Suppertime," complete with can-can and tango, is the high-point of the evening, and deserves the standing ovation it received...
...your article on the Texas State Fair: I have never known a Texan who drank rye whisky, unless he had just moved here from "Fun City." I have heard very few who speak with the accent indicated in the article, but then I live in South Texas, where we speak with a Spanish accent. New York's various boroughs speak a strange English...
...individuality. He says that in the game he plays the part of the "madman" (the French chess term for what in English is the "bishop"). "The individual, I, the madman, am aware of my personality as a madman...It is an ideological mania these days to put the accent on the group. I for my part am perfectly able to place the emphasis on what is different, on what is not the others, even though it is with the others. I feel myself to be irreducible...