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Commenting on Buck's findings, Frederick C. Packard '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, stated that the Harvard accent, far from omitting the "R," puts it just right. The "ah" sound in Hahvuhd is actually the best combination of the "A" and "R" sounds...
...make them any easier to picture. For example, how should an artist express the thoughts of a pregnant woman sitting on the ground somewhere in Europe? The first part of Erni's solution was to get the woman on canvas as realistically as he could and give her ah expression of dull waiting. Then, just over her head, he drew a tangled cat's cradle of white lines. He called the whole thing Young Woman...
...chapel, Hirota heard the cries. "What is that?" he asked. "Manzai?" (Manzai is the word for "comedy.") "Ah, banzai; I understand. Let us do it, too." The banzais of the three echoed out to the four in the courtyard...
...fairies, those despicable creations of Wall Street . . . You might even see a Santa Claus. But what would that prove? It would be no sign he was there! The most real things in the world are those a child never sees but is told about by the Central Committee . . . Ah, Virginia, in all the world there is nothing real or abiding unless you get it officially from the Kremlin. Santa Claus! Phooey! Thank Karl Marx, thank Lenin, thank Stalin, thank Vishinsky, thank Molotov, thank Gromyko, he was eliminated years ago forever...
...Mozart duo he had made years ago with his good friend, Violist-Composer Paul Hindemith. When the Japanese demanded that he play it for them, he begged off: "The other man is not here." When he told them that Hindemith was in New York, the Japanese replied: "Ah, we will get him then when we capture New York...