Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since its heyday during the Beat Generation and the Psychedelic Sixties, poetry reading has dropped out of sight into a few scattered coffee-houses around the Boston are. As part of their continuing efforts to revive interest in the artform of the spoken word, the "Sidewalk Poets" held their second annual "Poetry in the Park" series of readings in the Boston Common last weekend...
...Master of Ceremonies "Sidewalk Sam" Guillemin explained, "The spoken word has a living quality, particularly in the middle of the park, in the middle of the day." Instead of hearing poetry in the public parks, "we often hear harangues in those areas that should be the arenas for the noblest expression." "Poetry in the Park" is one attempt by the Sidewalk poets to set this trend aright...
Explaining what was meant by "harangues," one of the Sidewalk Poets, Jack Powers, mentioned that most public speakers, selling "religion, politics or a product," are a "turnoff to the spoken word...
...Corpus Christi, Texas, Browning was packed off to Sunday school at a nearby Episcopal church by his parents, who were nonpracticing Methodists. "I probably wanted to be a priest from a very young age," he says. Browning, a congenial and soft-spoken churchman, is married and has five children. He has more international experience than any previous Presiding Bishop. He spent a dozen years as a priest and bishop in Okinawa, was the bishop supervising American Episcopal churches in Europe, and then served as Executive for National and World Mission at Episcopal headquarters in New York City...
...classic New Deal argument, movingly spoken. But Cuomo took it too far...he evoked a nation reminiscent of 50 years before, at the height of the Depression, an America remembered from his own childhood. The scenes he described were distant from the lives of ordinary suburban Americans of 1984. The depression he so piously depicted seemed all but impossible in a modern prosperous welfare state...