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...Stole Professors' Thunder...
Charles Mill, the paper's reporter, decided the three law school professors on the panel "had their thunder taken away by the Barnett address." Observing the audience, Mill thought the students "learned something of their own state, giving rapt attention...
...stump speech need not make sense or state an argument lucidly. Such precision would detract from its real purpose--to excite the uneducated and impress upon them the identification of the speaker with "traditional values." The phrases must pour forth in magnificent thunder, roll like waves across the audience. Any attempt at argument might confuse the people--or if they understood it, enrage them. Unfortunately for the Honorable Governor, his audience at Sanders wanted clear argument. Three professors of law were on hand to debate substantive issues in intelligible terms. Ross gave them only patriotic sentiments, eloquent appeals to liberty...
Motley Assortment. These sentiments were drowned, however, by a thunder of skepticism, indignation and wrath. Predictably, conservative Columnist David Lawrence dropped a blanket indictment. Even the address's title, State of the Union, was inaccurate, Lawrence said...
...island in the 19th century -just could not cope with progress. Said one: "When you don't want to get up in the morning back home, you just stay in bed." Added 30-year-old Basil Lavarello: "TV nearly sends us mad. Cars, buses and trains roar like thunder through our brains. Way back in Tristan, a man can come to grips with his soul and his Creator...