The Guardian: “The days when great parliamentary orators would hold audiences rapt for hours are long gone, replaced by the incoherent impulse of the digital age, writes Simon Schama.” Met een mp3 van Winston Churchills fameuze ‘We shall fight on the beaches’, 4 juni 1940.
Entries Tagged as 'rhetoric'
The lost art of great speechmaking
April 20th, 2007
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March 10th, 2006
“Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself”: FDR’s First Inaugural Address “So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” (tags: history speech audio fdr us retorica) R-win.com [weblog] [...]
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