Word: speak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last lecture in the Summer School series will be given this afternoon by Jean J. Seznec, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at Oxford University He will speak on "A French Institution: The Ecole Normale Superieure," at 3 p.m. in the Forum Room...
...syntax can be made almost as fascinating as sin. Rounding out its sixth month this week, the lively sleeper (now on at 6 p.m., E.D.T.) is still piling up a whopping 1,000 letters a day from Americans who want answers to the tricky problems of the language they speak...
Last week, as usual, The Last Word produced the rarest sound on TV: the crackle of civilized talk. When the panel considered the difference between genius and talent, Brown handily paraphrased James Russell Lowell ("Talent is what a man possesses. Genius is what possesses a man"), and added: "You speak of a talent scout, on the assumption that talent can be found, but I have never heard of a genius scout, even on Madison Avenue." Unable to agree on whether hey liked the editorial "we," the panelists agreed that what Evans called the "hospital 'we' or the emetic...
...London literary luncheon bearing an elegantly Victorian, 2-ft.-long ear trumpet. Waugh, not widely known to be hard of hearing, waggled his antique radar about happily while chatting with table companions, clowned his listening gear with a flourish when an old enemy, Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge rose to speak, crowed later: "I did not listen to a word he said. I do not like that man. We met once in Africa...
Scope for Scope. Freberg, 31, is a very funny fellow who is clearly torn between his need for an audience and his desire to speak his mind. His orneriness was planed down over the past year when he and Producer-Writer Pete Barnum wrote and rewrote a long succession of TV shows for NBC. All were rejected because they lacked "scope." When the sardonic pair then submitted a new effort entitled Scope, NBC wished them a cold farewell...