The Fundamentals of Speech, a Behavioristic Study of the Underlying Principes of Speaking and Reading, a Text Book of Delivery |
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... sure to give proper impersonation to character parts , dialect , and intense emotions . Note how flat such stories are without adequate impersonation . III THE CONVERSATIONAL MODE CONVERSATION AS THE NORM Meaning of THE FUNDAMENTALS OF ...
... sure to give proper impersonation to character parts , dialect , and intense emotions . Note how flat such stories are without adequate impersonation . III THE CONVERSATIONAL MODE CONVERSATION AS THE NORM Meaning of THE FUNDAMENTALS OF ...
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... sure of what he is going to say and how he is going to say it ; at its best as props to a speech memorized . In the hands of a nov- ice or a poorly prepared man it leads to foolish mean- dering and hopeless digression . Men can use it ...
... sure of what he is going to say and how he is going to say it ; at its best as props to a speech memorized . In the hands of a nov- ice or a poorly prepared man it leads to foolish mean- dering and hopeless digression . Men can use it ...
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... sure that you shall speak only to listeners trained to be a kind of Quakers , better add to the power of your thinking and of your voice the power of an alert , energetic , yet controlled body . The Academic Manner Hardly Typical . - A ...
... sure that you shall speak only to listeners trained to be a kind of Quakers , better add to the power of your thinking and of your voice the power of an alert , energetic , yet controlled body . The Academic Manner Hardly Typical . - A ...
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... sure of their message , practice in bodily expressive- ness helps to free the thinking mechanism and to clarify the meaning . For those who find their chief troubles in their voices , action helps invigorate the blood , relax the tight ...
... sure of their message , practice in bodily expressive- ness helps to free the thinking mechanism and to clarify the meaning . For those who find their chief troubles in their voices , action helps invigorate the blood , relax the tight ...
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... sure to bring the relaxed leg and foot into an easy , definite position . 4. Place the weight on any of the points , either foot forward , and try the different easy positions into which the other leg can be dropped . After noting the ...
... sure to bring the relaxed leg and foot into an easy , definite position . 4. Place the weight on any of the points , either foot forward , and try the different easy positions into which the other leg can be dropped . After noting the ...
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Page 207 - For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe: You call me misbeliever, cut-throat, dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well then, it now appears, you need my help; Go to, then; you come to me, and you say, Shylock, we would have moneys...
Page 229 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight: A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay.
Page 196 - A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee; So that her highborn kinsmen came And bore her away from me.
Page 257 - We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. — Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
Page 254 - She should have died hereafter ; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
Page 197 - But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks! It is the east, and Juliet is the sun ! — Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she...
Page 244 - Be not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Page 253 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears : soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Page 255 - Thou minds me o' the happy days When my fause Luve was true. Thou'll break my heart, thou bonnie bird That sings beside thy mate; For sae I sat, and sae I sang, And wist na o' my fate. Aft hae I roved by bonnie Doon To see the woodbine twine, And ilka bird sang o' its love; And sae did I o
Page 314 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.