Word: singsonging
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Lonergan's new students start by tittering at his singsong voice and unmelodiously flat Latin pronunciation, and end by despairing at his blithe unconcern for the frailties of lesser intellects. Once, after failing to get a philosophical point across to his class, Lonergan brightened, said: "I think this will make it clear," proceeded to cover the blackboard with differential equations. During a World War II discussion about the loss to mankind in bomb-gutted libraries, Lonergan argued that the important things were in people's minds, not in books. In answer, someone cited Shakespeare...
Going from odd job to odd job, he tried acting. He saw an ad in the paper for would-be actors at the American Negro Theater. But he talked in a singsong island accent that made people collapse with laughter. Buying a small radio, he began to listen to the pure tones of the network announcers, repeating after them their every rounded phrase, commercials and all. When he went back to the American Negro Theater some months later...
Died. Theodore Roethke, 55, poet and professor of English at the University of Washington, who built his spare verse upon recollections of his hothouse childhood (his father was a commercial gardener in Saginaw, Mich.), blending the imagery of orchid, loam and garden creature with deceptively simple singsong; of a heart attack; on Bainbridge Island, in Puget Sound, Wash...
...ominously that "in more extreme forms it is associated with schizophrenia." Yet he conceded that his warning came only "after considerable wrestling of the spirit." Last year while he was confirming new members at the Holy Innocents' parish in Corte Madera, the clergy and congregation burst into spontaneous singsong. "Dyoso ki-i-yeno mayashi yekatona masi yano ma yenda ya kotani masiki." Pike was perturbed, but he waited to consult a diocesan commission-including a theologian, two psychiatrists, and a parish priest who practices glossolalia-which is preparing a scholarly report on the subject. Then he held his tongue...
...this is amiably flavorsome matzo-ball soup opera. Gertrude Berg is flawless in her comic timing, wry-arch in gesticulation, a singsong bird of prey who pounces on the feeblest line for a resounding laugh. For wit, there are Jewish folk inflections; for character, stereotypes; for comic insight, racial in-group jokes. Following up on his 1959 hit, A Majority of One, Spigelgass proves that he can bring in greenback gushers without any risky drilling for dramatic art. He is a situation tinker, and his vocation is to be not a playwright but a millionaire...