Word: stuttering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never gave me an impression of having any serious intellectual interests. I regarded him as just an adventurer, who found in Stalin's very ruthlessness something to admire, as his father, St. John Philby, the Arabist, had found in King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. Anyway, his appalling stutter would have precluded any sort of Marxist dissertation: Marx spoken is bad enough, but Marx stuttered would be intolerable...
...Richard Burton, the demonic Victorian explorer and scholar of the forbid den who infiltrated hostile cities dressed in native robes and speaking fluent Arabic. By contrast, Hoagland drifts in and out of stagnant backwaters, a rumpled, skinny fugitive from L.L. Bean whose spoken English is hampered by a bad stutter. He is as puzzling and exotic to his hosts as they are to him, one of a long line of white hunters and note takers whom the wags of Juba on the White Nile call pink spiders. Only this one writes a blue streak...
When someone yelled to him that his odds were crazy because Reuschel and the Cubs would take the game, the wiseman's color deepened, and he was barely able to stutter, "C'mon. Who's Reuschel? If the Cubs win the game, I'll buy you a Cadillac...
...that master of the art school nude−the flesh always rendered cold, the formality of the body emphasized by photographic-style cropping−has produced one of the best paintings of his career in Female Model on Platform Rocker, 1977 -78, with its uneasily tilting floor line and stutter of shadows cast by the slats of the chair across the pale wall. California's Robert Graham is represented by a group of his small, fragmentary bronze torsos, minutely finished, imbued with something of the erotic dandyism of the Belle Epoque. But the prize for obsessiveness, were...
Individually, meanwhile, many of them give every sign of knowing who they are. Here is one who says he is Marvin Schwartz, 46, a math teacher who took est training. Says Schwartz: "I used to stutter badly. With est I got off stuttering. My life is a sword now." Here is Peter Wetzler, 25. He meditates, runs, is "into" yoga and is happy "just being here and seeing the possibilities." Here is Sil Read, 23, another est grad, who thinks attending The Event is "like going into a beautiful church." There in a $60 seat, a matronly woman sits confiding...