Word: rienzi
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...dere? To Rienzi? Don't do dat, Sam, I'll talk. Just gimme a slug o' whiskey, tha's all. Just one slug...
...Awright, Maxie, spill it. See that city down there? Rienzi's out there waitin' for you. Now spill it or I'll toss you out there...
...first lesson in effectuality was Rienzi to the Romans, from Mary Russell Mitford's old 1828 melodrama. Charles Gibbons, 50, minority leader of the lower house, veteran of five terms, hardly got through the first line. "Friends," he began, his hands outstretched in appeal, "I come not here to talk...
...become an orator, a student must plow through dozens of speeches, from Rienzi to Wendell Phillips' Toussaint L'Ouverture. "Learning these speeches puts forms into your head," says Staley. "Instead of saying, 'I am about to tell you the story of a Negro, Toussaint L'Ouverture,' one can paraphrase, 'I am about to tell you the story of a man, James Michael Curley, gleaned from the reluctant testimony of his enemies, the knaves who despised him because he defeated them." As the new semester began last week, Founder Staley gave the new class...
...Italy-to live up to its faith in itself and its God. This sickness of a civilization, not necessarily fatal, had definite symptoms that could be observed and recorded. If the West did not observe, record and act upon the evidence, the West would be deader than Rienzi...