Word: rhetorician
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There are two James Baldwins, equally passionate, at times equally gifted. One is the racial rhetorician, the polished pamphleteer, the literate prophet who warned about The Fire Next Time long before the words, "Burn, baby, burn" raged in the land. His preachments remain intensely articulate, painfully-and plainly-relevant...
Died. Sir Ernest Gowers, 85, British civil servant, who served for 60 years in every capacity from Lloyd George's secretary to London civil defense chief in World War II, known in the U.S. as the rhetorician who slew the dragon of verbosity, first with his bestselling plea for simple language, Plain Words (1954), and last year for his revision of the classic Fowler's Modern English Usage, which preserves its original charm; of cancer; in Midhurst, Sussex...
Carmichael, who has no more use for black racism than for white, deplores civil rights opportunists. "I don't think the Reverend Milton Galamison* is a very intelligent leader. The trouble is that you get an opportunist and he becomes a rhetorician; he says things that are going to appease people; he's not going to really look for solutions...
...master strain in his character is the rhetorician. Platform speeches and leading articles flow from him almost against his will. At dinner he talks and you can hardly tell when he leaves off, quoting his one idol, Macaulay, and begins his other, Winston Churchill...
Miguel Street's best rhetorician is a broad-sterned woman named Laura, who has had eight children by seven men. "Man, she like Shakespeare when it come to using words," says a man who is inexplicably called Hat. Tenderly, Laura gives her brood the rough side of her tongue: "Alwyn, you broadmouth brute, come here," and "Lorna, you black bowleg bitch, why you can't look what you doing...