Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whenever the President had to speak up at the Geneva conference, as Khrushchev told it, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who was seated at Ike's right, would hand him a note telling him what to say. "The President should at least, for the sake of appearances, have turned aside and glanced through the note before reading it to the meeting. But instead, he would just take it and read it off. We could not help wondering, comrades and gentlemen, who was running the country. Such a President can make God knows what kind of decisions...
...Menderes government grew more and more oppressive. Good Soldier Gursel began to speak up to the politicians in defense of personal liberties. "I warned them," he declared in his first post-revolutionary speech last wreek, "that they could save themselves only if they followed several steps I pointed out to them." Instead, some months ago. Gursel received orders retiring him as commander of Turkish ground forces before normal retirement age. The general promptly tore the orders up and returned the pieces to the defense ministry. But three wreeks ago, with retirement age upon him, Gursel went on "terminal leave...
...answer in a second, you may have to stretch it out over a minute if the distance and noise level are great enough. It's almost like talking in a noisy room. If you want to make yourself heard, you're much better off trying to speak slowly than rapidly...
...violent theater of Tennessee Williams and his imitators is not, as it is often hailed, daring and nonconformist. It is, on the contrary, the expression of a new philistinism. So says Alfred Kazin, latest of many critics to speak out against what is dehumanized and degenerate in the Broadway theater...
MIGUEL STREET, by V. S. Naipaul (222 pp.; Vanguard; $3.95), recalls the fact that, by some twist of mind or diet, the inhabitants of Trinidad speak English in a way that startles and delights the ear. They have this in common with nonprofessional speakers of Irish English (the barroom Irish of Manhattan's Third Avenue are tedious professionals) and with the talkers of Elizabethan England, if their playwrights bear true witness. In writing about such magnificent lingoists, color threatens to overwhelm shape, as it very nearly did in Naipaul's roguish first novel, The Mystic Masseur. In these...