Word: oratore
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* He uses Japanese in conversation, but his speeches are delivered in English, since the ambassador has no time to compose the precise, formalized rhetoric expected of the Japanese orator.
As President of all the American people, John Kennedy has a rare talent for blending in with Americans of all kinds. Last week, attending the National Football Foundation's annual banquet in Manhattan, he posed for pictures with a crop of 1961 gridiron stars, fitted in so perfectly that...
The Chairs opens as a very old man and his admiring wife await a group of illustrious guests, coming to hear his parting Message. A professional orator has been hired to deliver the speech, which will summarize the old man's life-experience.
When the orator finally enters, he is a real character. The man and his wife, satisfied that the message will be delivered, take their lives. The orator draws himself up, confronts both the empty and the actual theater before him, and finally gargles forth a few incoherent syllables. He is...
Instantly the entire statement has been made clear: there is no message. A lifetime's impressions cannot be neatly synopsized. And there is no audience: only hollow men, a worshiping wife, and a world of idiotically polite conservation. At the same time, Ionesco illustrates his own failure: the drama, to...