Word: spokenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attention. But a few of the city's strong-minded art lovers gave it a good hand. For one, burly Editor Ralph McGill offhandedly plugged the show in his Constitution (which believes in giving Southern Negroes at least their minimum constitutional rights). After several prominent whites had spoken at its opening ceremonies, the all-Negro Annual gradually became an Atlanta institution. Now one of the South's outstanding art events, it hands out $1,400 in prizes, tries to keep its show down to a carefully chosen group, this year rejected some 50 exhibitors...
...possible to be more wicked at this sort of thing and at the same time more tasteful by means of pantomime than by word-of-mouth; and when an actor is attending to spoken lines, even good ones (and these are only pretty good), his ability to invent expressive pantomime is almost bound to slacken. There are some rough, funny scenes in A Royal Scandal, especially a long, toast-quaffing, glass-smashing seduction scene between the Empress and the most faithful and willing of subjects. But too much of the humor depends, typically, on your capacity for being amused...
...Kidding. "There are some kinds of spoken humor that you must learn to take calmly . . . kidding is perhaps [hard] to get used to but you have to learn. It may consist of mimicking to see if you 'can take it.' This variety is a subtle form of flattery as it makes you the center of attention and assumes that you can laugh at yourself, a quality that is much admired...
Died. Louis ("Uncle Louis") Esselen, 65, tall, soft-spoken confidant and lifelong friend of the Union of South Africa's Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts, longtime secretary of Smuts's United Political Party, commissioner of the Union's state-owned railroads; from a heart attack; in Cape Town...
There is also a moment, inside the same tank, of intercom dialogue which was recorded on the spot. It is spoken, against insane din, in voices so local, so familiar, that your impulse is to look into the face of the last man who spoke and say something in reply. But the speaker's face does not appear; and if you are a civilian, it is unlikely that there are any words you could find...