... newspaper article, he needs Utde help. But for a major effort —his fourvolume Marlborough, or his History of the English Speaking Peoples —he requires a staff, most of them young Oxford graduates hired at very small wages, to whom he assigns painting ...

... circumstances Preserve and consolidate in tolerance and goodwill What has been gained by conflict.” Thus, when Churchill rises to speak in the House, he holds in his hand not notes on the issues he means to address but the entire text of what he intends to say ...

... Soviet superiority in conventional forces. Mrs Thatcher’s most spectacular successes during her visit were achieved by plain speaking, both in her long and private sessions with Mr Gorbachev and in her public contacts including a hard-hitting uncensored ...

... will follow Marlborough, a four-volume History of the English-Speaking Peoples, gloomily adds: “I doubt if I shall finish it before the war comes. And if I do, the part about the English-Speaking Peoples will be so decisive I shall have to add several more ...

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... the reader, and explain his objects, in 200 or 300 pages, he is not likely to do so in 50 lines. And yet the temptation of speaking a few words behind the scenes, as it were, is so strong that few writers are able to resist it. I shall not try.” This bears ...

... Genoese crossbowmen, his soft-shoe shuffle for the King and the Prime Minister, and his newsflash surtitles. Sallinen’s music speaks directly through powerful choruses, with their echoes of Mussorgsky and Prokofiev, accessible vocal lines, sometimes reminiscent ...

... sign language should be suppressed and that deaf children should be integrated with the hearing community by being taught to speak; it is this latter view that has prevailed, and oralism is still the practice ...

... praises. FI'CCWCISOns! to the Mfljor drink- Another Scottish writer went even ofpeatiness, softness and sweetness. We daurm speak, but we can Wink, further was Christopher North and he There are other fine malts, of course An heaven be thankit, we can ...

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... his face and murmurs, “Darling”. It is true that he kicked a large tabby cat who played with the telephone cord when he was speaking to the Lord Chancellor of England, shouting, “Get off the line, you fool!”—and hastily telling the chancellor, “Not you!” ...

... ic it may appear, is entitled to a pragmatic judgment. The ancients wrote: “When Pericles speaks, people say, ‘How well he speaks,’ but when Demosthenes speaks, they say, ‘Let us march’.” John Kennedy said, “Churchill formed the English language into ...