Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before I leave the topic of the word, of language and of literature, I want to say something about the spoken word. The best speaker I heard in my life was Reinhold Niebuhr, the American theologian and philosopher. I first heard him at Friends' House, London, in July 1946. He spoke for an hour without notes, and he had us in the hollow of his hand. One of his themes was the potential goodness of individual man, and the potential wickedness of collective man. An individual man could become a saint, but collective man was a tough proposition. He broke...
...confidence. Others tracked down a witness in Poland who agreed to meet them only at a gasoline station. Though names are being kept under wraps, 37 witnesses have been flown to London to testify at the nine-day trial. Twelve of them, according to the producers, have never before spoken publicly about the case...
...economics professor, offered a more trenchant critique of Mitterrand's economic and defense policies than Chirac, all too often he did so in a style better suited to university lecture halls than to political rallies. Said Political Scientist Olivier Duhamel of the University of Paris- Nanterre: "He has spoken Gaullist words but failed to achieve a Gaullist style...
...more unique and entertaining aspects of the a capella style adapted by the Kroks involves the comedic introductions that precede each musical routine. "The Kroks would often formally present each song with a spoken introduction. These naturally developed into little jokes," Cloherty says. The comedic introduction soon became an entertainment standard for the Kroks and for every a capella group that was to follow, he says...