Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rarity among Tory Prime Ministers: a man who is not a product of one of Britain's select public schools. Heath did, however, attend Oxford's Balliol College, on an organ scholarship. Some acquaintances claim that they can still detect a trace of cockney in his acquired upper-class accent. "His vowels betray him," says a fellow Tory, who recalls that some party members would mimic Heath's peculiar accent behind his back...
...second accent might be called ritualized rage. It is irritating, infuriating, a deliberate shock tactic that also provides relief and release for those who use it. It can be turned on at will. This does not mean that it is phony, that much of the anger isn't real; but it is controlled, a game, and not without its dangers. The third accent is true despair -not tough, not raging, but steadily bitter, the result not of hopelessness but of insufficient hope. It is the third accent, of course, that is the most deeply disturbing. Black militancy continues...
...there came Old George-a little chubby, a toneless voice, but those steady eyes, that sense of hidden pow er. Was there something here after all? Each day he hit the "senseless slaughter" in Viet Nam, with the accent on senseless; and he talked about the glacial impersonality of government and bureaucracy and political parties...
...nurtured. In the jokes that matter, the film is as hard as a diamond, cold to the touch and brilliant to the eye. To Nichols, Catch-22 is "about dying"; to Arkin, it is "about selfishness"; to audiences, it will be a memorable horror comedy of war, with the accent on horror...
...month after his arrival, Mike's accent fell away like hand-me-down overalls. His father, a doctor, died when the boy was twelve. There was hardly any cash; the brilliant, aggressive student subsisted on scholarships and formed a lasting grudge against the unfeeling. To this day he remembers learning in terms of combat. "In grammar school you fight for your life and try not to get the crap beat out of you after school," he recalls. "In high school you figure things are frozen forever in a certain pattern; there are a couple of guys you can beat...