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Politicians and would-be ones have been rapping on Delbert Moyer Staley's door since...
Twenty-one members of the Massachusetts legislature-Republicans to a man -turned out last week for night courses at Brookline's Staley College of the Spoken Word...
...Keep your hands at your side!" cried his Staley College professor. "Speak up! Straighten...
Almost the first student Staley had was a young ward worker named James Michael Curley, later famed as mayor, congressman, governor and convicted con-man.* "He had the harsh Boston voice," recalls Delbert Staley, "and the vocabulary of a fishmonger. But I straightened out his grammar, gave him a vocabulary, and trained his voice." Curley, says Staley proudly, is "the greatest American orator since Daniel Webster...
...become an orator, a student must plow through dozens of speeches, from Rienzi to Wendell Phillips' Toussaint L'Ouverture. "Learning these speeches puts forms into your head," says Staley. "Instead of saying, 'I am about to tell you the story of a Negro, Toussaint L'Ouverture,' one can paraphrase, 'I am about to tell you the story of a man, James Michael Curley, gleaned from the reluctant testimony of his enemies, the knaves who despised him because he defeated them." As the new semester began last week, Founder Staley gave the new class...