Word: oratoric
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"They Shall Not Rise." Jake Gaither fans the fire of combat in his players, encourages rivalry among them by dividing them into three separate units dubbed "Blood. Sweat and Tears." The son of a Methodist minister. Gaither is a revivalist orator. "Baby." he cries, striding into a locker room before...
Inherit the Wind (Stanley Kramer; United Artists). On July 10, 1925, at the height of a heat wave that fairly boiled the Coca-Cola in the jury's veins, a 24-year-old school teacher named John Thomas Scopes went on trial in the hill-country town of Dayton...
He was not a brilliant courtroom orator, nor a subtle legal beagle. But he could sense in an instant the secret weakness of a witness, knew every judge and most of the prosecuting attorneys like the back of his hand. And he exercised a mysterious power over juries. They instinctively...
In 1870 Victoria Woodhull, a handsome young advocate of free love and magnetic healing, added considerable spice to the suffrage cause. With her beauteous sister Tennessee, she arrived in New York from Pittsburgh (on the orders, she said, of the ghost of the Athenian orator Demosthenes) and asked the ailing...
Selections from the Speeches (1900-1959) of Murray Seasongood (Knopf; $4.50), compiled and with a foreword by Agnes Seasongood. Orator Seasongood was mayor of Cincinnati from 1926 to 1930 and seems to have been a fairly fluent afterdinner speaker, but this cannot explain why the doughty firm of Knopf decided...