Word: oratore
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During the 1960s, most white Mississippi liberals were united only by their silence. To be sure, there were some "festering sores of liberalism," as one orator noted: Hodding Carter and Hodding Carter III, Patricia Derian, Kenneth Dean, Hazel Brannon Smith, James Silver, to name a few. But most whites who...
In their half-whimsical, half-serious catalogue, the literate authors' own highly ambivalent feelings about the art of rhetoric emerge: "It is the bag of crafty tricks for common word-mongers; it is the sublime esthetic for the consummate orator." That plainly smacks of enthymeme ("out of the seeming...
Image Problem. Few Germans could imagine anyone shouting "Rainer, Rain-er!" for Opposition Leader Barzel, who took over the reins of his party last year. A former Minister of All-German Affairs, Barzel is a gifted orator and highly intelligent tactician-with an image problem that he has never been...
Paul Hecht looks right for the ardent, opportunistic Antony. But he does not yet fulfil the requirement that he also be the play's most effective orator. The moment when Antony first confronts Caesar's corpse and soliloquizes while hugging the body in his arms is the most moving in...
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, 29, leader of Libya's revolutionary government, is a compulsive orator who occasionally stumbles over his own rhetoric. He did so again last week before a clutch of visiting Arab notables and a crowd of 10,000 attending a celebration marking the second anniversary of Libya...