Word: stammerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speaks and even seems to think with a stammer-but the halt is strangely touching. In song, his voice quavers and breaks, but then he catches it, and it rises to a shriek that ends on a cheerless blue note. He rocks in rhythm across the keyboard of his piano, but he seems not so much mannered as he is possessed. He is a blind Negro, haunted by narcotics; yet when he sings a song that makes him stammer, shriek and rock, Ray Charles is the best blues singer around...
...occasionally a blade clouts him on the back of the noggin, he is undeterred. He barrels on, filling the conversational air with friendly bellowings and snorts even when he has not formed words ready to his tongue. He can keep an interrupter at bay just by an elongated stammer, disarm the most savage attacker with a high, snuffling whinny, and it sometimes takes the cold light of morning to tell where he went wrong. But he remains one of the truly freewheeling minds of the times, a genuine enfant terrible of letters who frequently is the first to point...
...excellent speaker, despite occasional traces of a childhood stammer, Lodge hopes to debate Independent Hughes ("to expose him for what he is-a socialist pacifist"), but is looking forward even more eagerly to getting Teddy on TV. "I just long to have him alone in debate. I would like it to be just the two of us and a moderator. Oh, how I would like that." But Lodge is also a realist. Says he: "I'm the underdog now at no better than 6 to 4." Vows Grindle: "We'll campaign 16 hours a day and pray eight...
Lots of people liked Julian Harvey. A handsome, curly-headed, flat-bellied man of 44, he was a familiar figure around the Florida ports where he worked as a captain and sometime seaman on chartered yachts. He was a weight lifter and a physical-fitness cultist, with a stammer that somehow seemed to enhance his charm. Moreover, he was as brave as he was likable. For 16 years Harvey had been in the Air Force. He flew in North Africa, Europe and the South Pacific during World War II. Between wars he won a special commendation for deliberately ditching planes...
...that role of salesman that Barry Goldwater has caught popular imagination. At his worst, Goldwater can stumble and stammer through carefully rehearsed texts. Fortunately, he is far more likely to toss away his prepared speech and make the same pitch in gutsy, give-em-hell language that puts the essence of his conservatism in metaphors of the man in the street. He talks neither up nor down to his audiences: he talks to them with obvious sincerity, and in so doing demolishes the stereotype of the conservative as the square in the Celluloid collar. For even his political opponents agree...