Word: declaimer
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Turn to Fudge. Last summer, Tate imposed a state of limited emergency as a precaution against racial violence and fully backed Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo, who mobilized massive force at the least hint of trouble. Having dominated the front pages all summer, Tate is now able to declaim: "While other cities were being burned, sacked and pillaged, Philadelphia had law and order." When Tate demands to know if Specter, as mayor, would keep the controversial Rizzo in office, it is the D.A.'s turn to fudge. To take a stand on Rizzo would alienate either those who considered...
...tough-minded Amy Lowell, smoking the cigars that shocked Boston in the early 1920s. As a teenager, Amy wrote in her diary the frank confession, "I am fat, ugly, inconspicuous and dull: to say nothing of a very bad temper." As an adult, she intermittently feared revolution and would declaim at dinner...
...main criticism that can be directed at the Requiem is the prominence of the text, and the presence of several passages which do little more than declaim words, detracting from the musical interest and continuity. Since the text is not liturgical, but rather passages from the Bible chosen by the composer, he wishes to focus interest on it as well as on the music. But these are not always compatible ends, and the integrity of the musical parts suffers as a consequence...
...James's Theatre (which Actress Leigh had protested two days before by marching down the Strand ringing a handbell). Fuming as Baron Blackford described the St. James's as "simply an obsolete, Victorian, inconvenient, uncomfortable playhouse with no architectural or historic value," she leaped to declaim: "My lords, I want to protest against St. James's Theatre being demolished!" While their lordships sat in stunned silence at this breach of protocol, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod gravely put the arm on the interloper: "Now you will have to go, Lady Olivier." Said Lady Olivier ruefully...
...lectures are not only a questionable form of entertainment, but that they are not the most efficient or even stimulating way of getting an education. The problem is not, however, that professors think or talk too slowly. Even though one can read material much faster than a lecturer can declaim it, lectures should, in theory, serve as a dramatization, stimulating Thought and provoking questions at a peculiarly appropriate time--when the professor is present...