Word: accenting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...seemed endowed with the same charisma that won and held popularity for Dwight Eisenhower. In appearance he is a slender man with a boyish face, an uncontrollable shock of hair, a dazzling smile. In manner he is alert, incisive, speaking in short, terse sentences in a chowderish New England accent that he somehow makes attractive (even when he pronounces Cincinnati as "Since-in-notty" in Cincinnati), reaching with no apparent effort into a first-class mind for historical anecdotes or classical allusions. Like Ike, who is 27 years his senior, he projects a kind of conviction and vigor even when...
Sunday: John turned out to be a typical Harvard glamour boy with a crew haircut, broad A accent, short trousers, and all the fixing... After three ales he kept mumbling something about sticking to his ideals and keeping away from the "wolff" even if it meant flunking out next semester...
...over as a polling place and the heroine wanted to turn the whole thing into a party, with ruffles on the voting booths. Although the assembly line may soon run the ignorant-immigrant theme into the ground, Actress Fargé triumphantly resists being merely Lucille Ball with a French accent. She is easily the brightest newcomer to situation comedy-small, pert, winsome, and somehow giving the impression of being attractively feathered...
...compound the cinematic crime, Caesar, the empire builder, is portrayed by Actor Gavin, a rose-lipped, sloe-eyed young man who looks as though he never got to the first conjugation, let alone the Gallic Wars. And Antoninus, a Roman poet, is played by Actor Curtis with an accent which suggests that the ancient Tiber was a tributary of the Bronx River. To these blunders is added the customary quota of glaring goofs (a map of Italy that looks like nothing seen in Rome before the 19th century), slobbery sentiment ("Be gentle with me. I'm going to have...
Conservative Reluctance. His closest rival is Alice Hall, 57, a retired schoolmarm from Georgia who speaks perfect Spanish with a corn-pone accent. She has been following the bull since the days of Cesar Giron and Litri, has a filing-case memory for every tauromachic fact invented by man or bull. Others in the bull-bum set are Virginia Smith, 28, who spent her Long Island childhood dreaming of castles in Spain, and knew, even before she saw her first bullfight, that she was going to be an aficionado. She has proved it by logging more corrida miles this year...