Word: stentorian
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Starting from scratch, but with confidence in his own spellbindery, Adolf Hitler slowly worked up the fantastic party he calls National Socialist, Nazi Fascist. Its program consists of stentorian appeals to every form of German prejudice. Essentially Nationalists and patrioteers, the Nazis insert "Socialist" into their party's name simply as a lure to discontented workers. In so far as it has a doctrine, National Socialism promises the bulk of the German people whatever they want...
...lived for exam period. Winter, Spring, GRE's, makeups, Summer School, the Freshman reading test--Mr. Test worked them all. His stentorian voice warned students year after year to have their pencils sharpened, not to use the lavatory until 90 minutes had passed, and to pass their attendance slips to the center aisle. Every Harvard undergraduate since the early 1970s has a favorite story about the voices that came over the P.A. system an hour into an exam and admonished, "Remember that fire exits are located in the front and rear of the building...
From time to time, McClintick introduces the monotony of docudrama: Alan Hirschfield "came to regret that Friday deeply and would continue to regret it for the rest of his life." Happily, such stentorian tones do not often interfere with a drama no dream merchant could concoct. Hollywood, superb at turning its sand grains into pearls, stayed true to tradition. Far from suffering obloquy and ostracism, Begelman went on to pilot MGM. Hirschfield became head of 20th Century-Fox, where he successfully defended an executive accused of padding an expense account. By last week serious bids were being offered...
...chronicle of Churchill's first four decades by the versatile biographer and journalist (Maugham; Rowing Toward Eden) catches Churchill on all fours. Here, the world statesman is still a vote-grabbing politician, and the supreme war strategist a romantic blunderer. The omnipresent cigar, the V sign and the stentorian voice on the wireless are a World War away...
...newspapers, calling upon the governments of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to stop denouncing each other. They asked for an uncensored flow of information between Western and Soviet peace groups. The Kremlin is unlikely to welcome an unfettered peace group, however small and softspoken. But in view of its stentorian approval of peace activists in the West, it may be too embarrassed to do much about the new organization-at least for the time being...