Word: speak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wisely told us to "speak softly and carry a big stick." Nowadays, the big stick is a mashie...
...sort of Orson Welles rolled into one. He has 13 produced plays to his credit, two of which have reached Broadway (the first: The Love of Four Colonels), has acted in dozens of plays and movies, directed half a dozen more. A brilliant raconteur, ad-libber and dialectician, he speaks French, German. Italian and Spanish (plus devastatingly accurate American of several regions), gives funny, plausible imitations of languages he does not speak, e.g., Russian with a Japanese accent, can make noises like a talking dog. a bugle, a violin, flute, bassoon or harpsichord. He is halfway through the script...
...paneled lecture room at the University of Chicago one day last week, a pink-cheeked, wispy-haired little man mounted the raised platform, pushed his horn-rimmed glasses up on to his forehead and began to speak. He was not comfortable. "I do not feel at ease when I have to speak," said Painter Marc Chagall. "My language...
...spoke (in French, through an interpreter) perhaps more about art and about himself than ever before. Invited by the Committee on Social Thought, an organization that aims to further intellectual awareness in America (previous guests: T. S. Eliot, Jacques Maritain, Arnold Toynbee), visiting Professor Chagall was listed to speak on "Art and Life." To this son of an illiterate Russian barrelmaker who has been a refugee from both Communism and Naziism, art and life are synonymous, and both require only love. "Without love," his students heard, "an art is not art, and a life is not life." Chagall ranged wide...
...temperature, they have built themselves a real live teen-age monster (Gary Conway) and fed the leftovers to a crocodile that is kept around as a sort of garbage-disposal unit. No sooner does the monster come out of the anesthetic than Professor Frankenstein, in deadly earnest, commands him: "Speak! You've got a civil tongue in your head. I know you have because I sewed it in myself...