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Word: chandclier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looked up at the modern paintings which glared incongruously like colorful Rorshach inkblots from the walls of the Faculty Club dining room. Singer seemed at home in the sober stateliness of the wood-pancled room with its immense chandclier. He might have been an old alumnus returning to recapture an earlier cra, but his marvelous Yiddish accent spoke of a childhood spent elsewhere. Delicately rolled r' s and full-bodied gultural consonants played hide-and-seck among the alien diphthougs of American English. Singer spoke slowly and clearly, sometimes hesitating over a word, rejecting it, and choosing another...

Author: By Paul G. Kleinman, | Title: Talking with Isaac Bashevis Singer | 4/9/1970 | See Source »

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