Word: twangs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fact. Lyndon Johnson fairly swept his audience along, drew his first applause when he quoted Matthew: "For, with a country as with a person, 'What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?' " The emotion took hold; the Texas twang rose and billowed. He smiled beatifically, sighed sarcastically, frowned fiercely: he pursed his lips, jerked his thumb, clenched his fists, reasoned, cajoled, commanded. No section of the U.S.. said Johnson, should "look with prideful righteousness on the troubles in another section," for "there is no Negro problem. There...
Another, a suave type, feeling grossly outclassed by Harvard sophistication, adopts an alien mid-western twang and cultivates a homespun humor and the slightly hayseed appearance of an endearing country lad. A third arrives sporting a youthful social idealism. Finding this stance unfashionable, he soon outdoes his classmates in pretending to the cynicism of a world-wise septagenarian. Sometimes one's entire undergraduate career may become an act. "The Snow-Man," of one sort or another, is a traditional Harvard phenomenon The ethos of this complex is ambition; its characteristic emotion is frustration...
...when we must say to the young men and women of America: 'We cannot trust you. We cannot depend upon you. We cannot use you -except for fodder in the flames of war.'" Moyers also feels strongly about Texas. A television interviewer, noting Moyers' soft twang, asked: "Do I detect a Texas accent?" Replied Moyers quickly: "Not only in my speech, sir, but in my heart...
...building was probably dictated less by taste than by the vast cost of its star boarder, a steel-boned, electronic-nerved mechanical Lincoln that stands up, adjusts its coattails, clears its throat and delivers six excerpts from Abe's speeches on liberty with a nasal Midwestern twang...
...writes all her own material, and the people who are attracted to it now are very often serious musicians. Pale cellists and fat sopranos sit in her audiences and variously twang and chortle. In London recently, after a performance in which she parodied the Ring of the Nibelung, the massed Valkyries of Covent Garden went round back stage and presented her with a bust of Wagner...