Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Seething Anger. According to another theory, the impediment is a symptom of buried hostility. Says Psychologist Murry Snyder, executive director of New York City's Speech Rehabilitation Institute: "Underneath the cloak of inhibition and mild manner, the stutterer often seethes with anger." In support of this theory, he and others note that the stutterer can be fluent, and usually is, in circumstances that do not require him to communicate his own feelings: when he is an actor, for example, delivering someone else's words to an audience of strangers...
Candid Display. In the contemporary theater there is usually some attempt to cloak the evening's activities in a lofty rationale of protest. The Dirtiest Show in Town emits the mandatory blasts at the Viet Nam War, air pollution, urban blight and computerized conformity. So what else is new? Something of durable human concern and curiosity that cannot be graphically described: scenes of fornication, cunnilingus, fellatio, communal couplings and a candid display of homosexual and lesbian preferences...
until all things stand out like the folds of a cloak...