Word: stammerer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intrigue eventually becomes less interesting than the story of Darryl Deever and the other well-layered characters who populate Eyewitness. In one particularly amusing scene, Darryl's girlfriend (who punctuates every other word with a "you know") confesses to Darryl that she does not love him. Suddenly enlightened, they stammer at each other: "I've never loved you." "I've never loved you, either." The international intrigue can't match the smaller, and better conceived, aspects of the plot...
...Bullaro would sometimes peddle alone for fifteen miles." But Bullaro is not selling something; he is a man pedaling a bicycle. The author repeats himself, achieving a sort of tautologous stammer: "What would prove to be decisive in her decision," or the "hearing would not be heard for at least another hour." Plurals and singulars confound him: "Men who noticed that their wives aroused other men became in many cases aroused by her themselves." He confuses foreboding with forbearance, uses interfaith for the opposite, intrafaith, and misapplies who, whom, which and that with abandon...
...teach English. To the extent Harvard gave him the opportunity, it worked in conformity with Nature; to the extent Harvard frustrated him, it sinned against Providence and human potential. After a first meeting Jonathan might not have seemed suited to the role of lecturer. He had a habitual slight stammer. But this disappeared when he lapsed, as he did frequently and nearly unconsciously, from his own words into a quotation from a poem. It then became clear which was his native language, his real voice...
...Maugham's character and behavior. Young Willie spent his first ten years in France, until he was orphaned and sent to Kent to live with an aunt and clergyman uncle. Suffering from the cultural bends and deeply scarred by the death of his mother, Maugham acquired a lifelong stammer and a taste for masochistic relationships. "I have never experienced the bliss of requited Slove," he once wrote. "I have most Sieved people who cared little or nothing for me and when people have loved me I have been embarrassed." His marriage in 1917 to Syrie Wellcome...
...faculty and administrators are alienated from each other, locked into a self-perpetuating cycle of contempt, resentment and hostility. Professors peer down at students from the podium and avoid them elsewhere. Students don't go to office hours, and if a professor sits down with them at lunch they stammer or leave. Administrators sneer at student activists, who retaliate with accusations of immorality or deliberate evil. Students cry to advisers, and advisers tell them Harvard is no place for the weak...