Word: accenting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Died. Gregory Ratoff, 63, flamboyant actor, director and producer who played all his roles with a thick Russian accent, a $2,500-a-week asset of which he made light. ("Italian, I murder; Eenglish, I only manslaughter.") St. Petersburg-born, Ratoff left Russia after the Revolution, after years as a Broadway and Hollywood star won a reputation as one of filmdom's most versatile and gaudily garbed directors; of leukemia; in Solothurn, Switzerland...
...political principles drawn from the tradition of natural law-approve themselves to the Catholic intelligence and conscience. Where this kind of language is talked, the Catholic joins the conversation with complete ease. It is his language. The ideas expressed are native to his own universe of discourse. Even the accent, being American, suits his tongue...
Miss Taylor is, after all, a competent actress, and she does at times bring to the role of Gloria Wandrous something of the spirit of O'Hara's book. But Mr. Harvey is a totally unbelievable Weston Liggett. He speaks with a muted British accent, which may be intended to sound like Old Yale, but doesn't and he looks as though he were still in Room at the Top. It is inconceivable that any girl would waste a week touring the East's better morels with such an out-and-out spineless creep as Mr. Harvey portrays...
...classmate (Harvard-1906), Arthur N. Holcombe, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Emeritus, at the latter's seminar on the American Executive. He impressed the students there as the true diplomat--distinguished white hair, pince-nez, well-filled vest, and a distinct, erudite speech with a slight European accent...
...bottles: the triangle, in A Woman of No Importance, of the rich peer, the unwed mother and their son. Laurents' play substitutes beach-house manners for country-house ones; it speaks a livelier lingo in a much less melodramatic voice, and its Mrs. Grundy sports a Southern accent. But even Laurents' "The weak shall inherit the earth" echoes A Woman's famous "The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong." And where Wilde was almost the last user of the classic aside, Laurents has adopted its chic...