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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...measured by their ability to stare protesters down, but heckling has become rare since World War II. Heckling is most common in Britain, where it is something of an art, designed to test a speaker's combativeness and quickness of wit. Appropriately, the word comes from the Middle English "hekele," to tease or comb flax, or broadly "to tease with questions...
...English Training...
Hardy was born of English parents in the village of Ambala in Pakistan in 1946 but did not begin playing soccer until he entered school in London ten years later. "England is soccer-mad," he says, "and the professional games I saw in London inculcated a soccer sense...
...progressive" opponent of Mrs. Hicks when liberalism was popular, Eisenstadt now comes down hard for law and order, opposes community participation within Boston's Model City area, opposes the volunteer deputy program, and upbraids Mayor White for not calling in the National Guard to quell the disturbances at Boston English School last month...
Whatever the reason, he has no particular personality to insist upon, "no voice or stance, as we say in the English Department." He seems most comfortable when he can play someone else's part. He has a talent for doing voices and a heavy, mobile face that suggests the prosperous Dutchman who sat for Haals. In the language of the old screen comedians, his imitations produce the boffo--the laugh that kills. He usually delivers the lines sitting down, leaning forward over the table or desk. He moves the corner of his lip up toward his car, smooths the thinning...