Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHEN IT CAME TO HUMAN QUALITY, JACQUELINE ONASSIS HAD PERFECT pitch. After her son John had read aloud at the 1979 dedication of the Kennedy library in Boston the poem by Stephen Spender that begins with the words "I think continually of those who were truly great," she brought out one of her most delicate exhalations and said, "I'd really like to meet Mr. Spender, and I'd like Caroline to meet...
...pondered aloud, would the administration keep secret such a media "event," but then a kindly passer-by noted that Christo's fee for such an artistic "treatment" was undoubtedly equivalent to four years' tuition paid by the class of '96! No wonder the "patron of the arts" who heads Harvard kept the installation under wraps...
...given my mantra, but I never found itspiritually inspiring to utter the mantra aloud,"Barrett says...
...also shown, predictably, his passion for the actress Ellen Terry and his celibate marriage with Charlotte Paine-Townshend. yet Voysey Cleverly avoids monotony in his presentation of the monologues by depicting Shaw in various different contexts: dealing with an interviewer for an "unauthorized biography," reading his letters aloud to himself or delivering one of his many broadcasts over the radio...
...devices as unreliable narrators, characters who turn out to be angels in disguise, and good old melodrama. Echoes of past masters -- Henry James and John O'Hara, for instance -- abound. What saves the stories from seeming contrived is their natural assurance of voice (the sentences read as if spoken aloud), their steadiness of moral compass and their acuity -- often humorous -- of detail...