Word: uh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voice speaks drily and deeply, and despite Eliot's accent, there are unmistakably American qualities in his speech: its slowness, precise, though not pedantic, and its American "--and--uh." You notice the Yankee in his talk when he reads the second part of "The Waste Land," Lines like...
...moment, the speakers are switched off. Instead, from a tangle of wire punched into the back of the amplifier, a cord trails along the floor to the middle of the room. It snakes up a chair and into an outsize set of headphones worn by the pilot-uh, the listener. In the room, there is silence. But inside the earphones, pouring full-blast into the auditory canals is the sound of-a choo-choo train...
...Wellington Frobisher. Gee, Eugenie must have a lot of guys chasing . . . uh, calling on her, for you to get them mixed up like that...
...Uh huh. Well, what I wanted to ask you is: are you doing anything Christmas...
...Hello, Eugenie? It's me, Wellington. I'm just back from Harvard for the vacation, and, uh, I see it snowed here, you should see how much snow we have in Boston, it stopped the subways and everything. What I called about was this: would you like to do something Christmas...