Word: declaiming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Fraser : how his father was a Tory, his lady a revolutionist ; how he, torn between two personal voices and not particularly concerned with the wider issues of his country's dilemma, went to England, France, Scotland, looking for a fence to sit on ; how he heard men declaim in taverns and ordinaries, breaking their clay pipes with the passion of their rhetoric ; and how, by a somewhat fatuous coincidence, he came at last to march with Greene's army through North Carolina. Mr. Boyd writes the language laboriously and without zest. He is not concerned with unities...
...least superficial respect; and he is forced by public opinion and by that of Dr. Brinton to use the arts and devices of public speaking. He introduces, classifies and perorates and cannot be tripped up at the right moment by any skeptical listener. Whereas a tutor cannot declaim to one man, and he can be heckled; and he does not start from the resources of his own mind, but from those of his pupil's, so that there is more possibility of intellectual contact than between a lecturer and his audience...
...rebuffed, he would declaim...