New Yorkers speak more quickly and shift topics more rapidly. We all know that. But the way it's done is fascinating. At least it ...fascinated me when I first moved to New York. Someone has the floor and talks. As soon as I know what they are going to say, I can jump in, finish the sentence to show I understand, and take off into my own turn. The northern California I know isn't like that. Someone talks, and I lie back and listen and let them roll for a while. When they're done, there'll be a pause that will flash like a green light to announce that someone else can have the floor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even the most incompetent English actor, coming on the stage briefly to announce the presence below of Lord and Lady Ditherege, gi...ves forth a sound so soft and dulcet as almost to be a bar of music. But sometimes that is all there is. The words are lost in the graceful sweep of the notes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Next week Reagan will probably announce that American scientists have discovered that the entire U.S. agricultural surplus can be ...compacted into a giant tomato one thousand miles across, which will be suspended above the Kremlin from a cluster of U.S. satellites flying in geosynchronous orbit. At the first sign of trouble the satellites will drop the tomato on the Kremlin, drowning the fractious Muscovites in ketchup.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without rem...ark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishme...nts, it should be the festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol, as all other things are symbols of love. Those relations to the best men, which, at one time, we reckoned the romances of youth, become, in the progress of character, the most solid enjoyment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poets should be lawgivers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead, the c...ivil code, and the day's work. But now the two things seem irreconcilably parted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves. Who can doubt, that poetry will revive and lead in a new age,... as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole- star for a thousand years?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The contest between the Future and the Past is one between Divinity entering, and Divinity departing. You are welcome to try your ...experiments, and, if you can, to displace the actual order by that ideal republic you announce, of nothing but God will expel God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Announce by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,... Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils farm-house at the garden's end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »