Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...natchul English." Linguist Pederson agrees that the claim does have a certain validity. The North was largely settled by immigrants who learned English as a second language and were heavily dependent on the written word, he notes. Southerners, on the other hand, have always relied on the spoken word. "In that respect, Southern speech is closer to the native speech of England," concludes Pederson, and often to Elizabethan England. "It is a much more sensitive and effective medium of communication than Northern speech, for the most part, because it is so rooted in the spoken word...
...that it will be Ford) and doubtless continue talks down to the last midnight. Meanwhile, both sides are indulging in the usual rhetoric. GM Chairman Thomas Aquinas Murphy has warned that labor contracts that raise costs without improving productivity are "fateful mortgages upon our economic future," and Woodcock has spoken portentously of "the final countdown" to bargaining. Yet even the sloganeering has lacked fire. For example, a U.A.W. convention early this year displayed a banner demanding REASONABLE WAGE INCREASES-hardly the battle cry of hot-eyed militants...
Died. Ted Mack, 72, genial, soft-spoken host of television's Original Amateur Hour; of cancer; in North Tarrytown, N.Y. A bandleader in the 1920s, he started as talent scout for the radio version of the Amateur Hour in 1935, serving its late (1946) legendary M.C., Major Edward Bowes. Amateur Hour went on TV in 1948, and Mack ran the show until it died because of poor ratings in 1970. Among the future stars the show presented: Beverly Sills, Maria Callas, Ann-Margret, Pat Boone, and a skinny New Jersey kid named Frank Sinatra. Mack missed a couple...
...What do you think of the men who've spoken to your group? Who's talked...
...Librettist DuBose Heyward than any previous stage version. Houston's key decision was to treat Porgy and Bess as a real opera rather than a somewhat fancy Broadway musical. That meant restoring a good deal of rarely heard music. Gershwin's recitatives have traditionally been replaced by spoken dialogue. Most productions have entirely eliminated a brief, sensual scene showing the night life of Charleston, with the character Jasbo Brown playing some lowdown blues on a splendidly out-of-tune upright piano. They also usually omit Porgy's superstitious "Buzzard Song" ("Once de buzzard fold his wing...