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...Trotzky, whose aggressive spirit is tempered with shrewdness and whose power is wielded less by the force of oratory than by Machiavellian methods. In Zinoviev the fire of revolution burns unextinguishably; the power of his oratory is his most deadly weapon; his lips form revolutionary metaphors and epigrams and hurl them upon his audience until it becomes intoxicated with his magic; his voice, aided by gestures from "a windmill of arms and legs," is like that of a tragédien, rising from the soft strains of pathos to the roar of dramatic agony. Some have called him "the thunderer...
Astor: "I am most peaceful. I want any amount of peace. I am a monument of peace. Honorable gentlemen opposite hurl insults at my head, and do I care? Not in the least...
...last man to hurl defiance at the Government was Deputy Leon Blum, one of the ablest of Socialist leaders. Said...
...count present who is exposed as a chef before the play is done. Fashion is fluffy with crinolines and sentiment. Many of the stock characters, and some of the lines, are still doing reliable service, barbered in the prevailing mode. But playwrights no longer luxuriate in soliloquies, nor hurl asides at the audience like bombs...
...hand, there is little interest among the young men themselves. The common procedure is for the budding youth to dabble in studies and extra curriculum activities at college, pausing on occasion at the beck of a compelling headline to reflect on "those politicians". Sometimes he will brace himself to hurl invective at the contestants in the "fifty" game. Then he completes his quota of "C's" and joins his father's business...