Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Intriguing sense of revealed wisdom pervades Chen's conversation, partly a result of the peculiar use of language- Spoken with a heavy Chinese accent, his words usually hover on the border between the incomprehensible and the profoundly suggestive. But as with the sage-like Stein in Conrad's Lord Jim, the half finished phrases, the almost aphoristic quality of his sentences, lend a mysterious weight to all he says...
...followers of Rev. Moon have several times before used Harvard scholars to draw people to their workshops. In addition to Reischauer, Samuel H. Beer, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Samuel P. Huntington, Thompson Professor of Government, have spoken before groups of Moon followers...
...itself and yells "Author! Author!" after a performance of The Hemingway Play it's easy to imagine Frederic Hunter taking off out the back door. He is an unassuming man, humble about himself and his work. He'd rather write than talk about it. He is tall, thin, soft-spoken and wears tennis shoes. He has large hands and holds doors open for people in public places. He doesn't look like a Californian...
...spoken to Maggie, and I...told her she won't be with us." He paused, scanned the group, and gave them a quick smile. "I guess now I can congratulate you all, and I guess now you can relax a little too. I'm sorry this past week has been quite as full of tension as it has. I just...wanted to give Maggie a chance and...see if she was capable of helping...
...series of quick sense impressions that spin out of each other like the grooves on a record. She seizes the phantom detail that makes a memory jump to life-the texture of a jacket fabric; a room in the Mormon temple; the last words, wrenching and absurd, spoken to her by her dying father: "I'm so hungry...