Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That's the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME!!" in inch-high scrawls--it only brings out the sadist in us. Don't ('Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single-bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. And of course, always write outlines on the inside front cover, even if you have to do it after finishing the essay: it saves us the trouble of reading the garbage ahead...
...Again and again, he refused to sign anti-American propaganda documents, but finally, wracked with malaria and with his weight down from 185 to 145, he signed four statements, "when I believed I was at the end of my physical endurance." The documents, which Matagulay later had to read aloud so that the Viet Cong could record them on tape, bitterly attacked South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem and the U.S.'s support for his government...
...teen ager, he became a professional fighter. He won 16 in a row, lost the 17th and quit. Following a self-education program, he read one novel, listened to one symphony and studied one art masterpiece each week. He took up painting. One day, trying to read Shakespeare aloud, he discovered he had a speech impediment. He found his tongue was tied- attached to the floor of the mouth by too much flesh. He went to a surgeon, had it freed, and worked as a janitor in a drama school in order to learn to speak properly. He was soon...
...rather too large armchair, offered tea, and asked to admire the new Brooks Brothers suit he was wearing. We complied, and he went on to tell us that he has always preferred to live in "Jamesian seclusion." Wasn't this a very untheatrical sort of wish, we wondered aloud. The doctor confessed to us that, like Mr. James's, his heart was not in the theatre...
...Crowell-Collier Press is now persuading well-known and imaginative poets, playwrights and novelists to accept the handicap of a 798-word vocabulary and still write primers that six-year-olds can read for themselves with all the delight they have learned to expect from hearing parents read aloud at home...