Word: nasality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noise that Berlioz' bounding score calls for, and marveled at the expertly modulated brasses, blended and balanced instead of blaring. In Mozart's Symphony No. 41, a Beecham specialty, the strings were firmer and not quite so luscious as U.S. strings, not so dry and nasal as the French. The woodwinds, clearly articulate, played with a tone of pure gold. It was a glossily polished performance-for some a disappointment because of its fussiness. But all in all, through Sibelius' tone poem Tapiola, a Beethoven Eighth Symphony laid out with the precision and charm of an English...
Before long, the world began to hear a good deal about L.S.E. Hundreds of students flocked to hear Philosopher Bertrand Russell, or Sidney Webb himself, lecturing on the Fabian way in his high nasal voice. In 1912 a young man named Clement Attlee joined the faculty to teach social science and administration. Former pupils remember him as a quiet, dry, sometimes boring lecturer, devoted to his subject, who inspired classes only by his meticulous sincerity. Later, other young reformers followed: Philip Noel-Baker, now Labor's Minister of Fuel and Power; onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton...
...Wouldn't Know . . ." To Sperry, the "rich experiences" of the regular winter term were just as appalling. In one literature class of a New England institution, he found the teacher "a tired woman of about 50, with heavy black eyebrows and a nasal voice . . . For an hour she leafed through a collection of verse and commented on the titles in a dry monotone. She reached the conclusion that John Masefield loved the sea, and said she liked Robert Frost because there was 'none of that falderal about him-you wouldn't know his stuff was poetry...
Down the Cow. As gusty as he is lusty, Peirce talks a high, nasal torrent, mixing gamy reminiscences of the good old days with whatever notions happen to float through his head. At one moment he remembers persuading Hemingway to fight a bull in Spain while Peirce stood by with his Kodak to record the scene for posterity: "Only it was a cow. He damn near got killed, and then I found out there was something wrong with the camera-no picture." At the next moment, his mind still running to Hemingway, he offers a literary pronouncement: "Four-letter words...
...hear Zellerbach speak at a luncheon celebrating the second anniversary of the Marshall Plan, expected only a good meal and some of the pleasantly flattering remarks customary on such occasions. The familiar praise, however, was concentrated at the beginning of the speech. After that, Zellerbach's clipped, nasal voice began to tick off in unusual fashion some of the things that he thought were wrong with Italy...