Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rich, multi-textured language was muffled or lost to echoes--shouting lines didn't help audibility. To the actors' great credit, though, this is one of the very few Shakespeare productions in recent memory in which nobody had trouble with their diction: most of these guys knew how to speak Shakespeare as if they understood it, and could make us understand...
Cosmo's more provocative suggestions, which included vacuuming naked in front of the television in an attempt to break the sports fan's concentration, speak to the gravity of playoff fever's potential consequences...
Others study Spanish, immigration or bilingual education out of academic interest, or because they have volunteered teaching English-as-a-Second-Language to eighth graders in East Los Angeles or because they realize over thirty percent of the U.S. population will speak Spanish by 2050. I suspected my reasons were less noble. And this suspicion, however slight, turned first to guilt but then to an important realization...
...given me, I still feel like I've been short-changed in many respects: a lack of women offered tenure, overcrowded lectures, a set of Core offerings that is beyond pathetic. Considering Harvard's reputation, these grievances are not trivial. If money talks, maybe I should make mine speak as loudly and as clearly as possible...
Grace is the only one of the principals who isn't allowed to speak in her own voice. She's watched and observed but never fully pried open. It seems like an arbitrary choice at first, but as the novel progresses, it makes sense: Schwartz is putting a kind of disciplined distance between himself and a mourning middle-aged mother whose anguish may be too raw and primal for a male writer to understand. In the meantime, the two men circle each other, nearer and nearer, meeting by happenstance, then by design. At first it is only Dwight, the perpetrator...