Selene

Excellent observation regarding the "...diff between someone showing...passion...and, merely showing scene-chewing...emoting." Cooper did more with micro-facial actions and his total kinesics than most actors do with a "heart wrenching sob scene". I happened to sit in on my colleauge's "The Art of Oral Interpretation" course many years ago and chose Roark's jury summation as my end term performance project. Coop's cadence was not the best, but his iron certainty as to his principles connected to his legal contractual connection in his summation was stunning in its clarity. It took eight [8] minutes in the movie. I extended the time for cadence purposes when I did it and I was more animated. However, it is an intense speech and one of the most difficult tasks to perform it is to sustain it, which he did.

Morning: The "news" photo presentation of the "cache" of weapons confiscated in the "young man's room" in Penn. displays an upright copy of "The Anarchist Cookbook", one of the seminal books in anarchism. Hmmm, is someone sending a subliminal message? Adam

Precisely, I was fortunate enough to have attended NBI before, during and a very short time after the purge of the Branden's. However, true believers are true believers - A is A. Rand was not the most personable person to ask a question of at these meetings in the basement of the Empire State Building. I watched her excoriate young, wide eyed acolytes who never had a chance asking a question. However, does anyone know how Aristotle "taught" his students?

It is alleged that Freud said on his deathbed to his closest friend, "Please protect me from the neo-Freudians".

Might you remember Ragnar Daneskold? I'm sure he had some of his members on shore leave from time to time. Additionally, we have historical records of "militia" in the Revolutionary War who were about as non-organized as one could possibly imagine[see The Swamp Fox Francis Marion]. Finally, in the global collapse, the central military was just as incompetent as the rest of the culture.

Evening: I am new to this forum. I think you make an interesting observation. During the 1950's, when subliminal visual versus aural advertising became a staple of Madison Avenue, moviegoers were subjected to micro flashes of "eat popcorn" "hot" scenes, eg., a desert, a sweating athelete to increase lobby sales during intermission. Therefore, it is logical to presume that these devices are used in a more "sophisticated" way today. I was interested in how the words/phrases that you refered to were slowly fading and reappearing. Since television is a "cool" medium[see Marshall McLuhan's writings] the "effect" that you refered to is quite startling. Nice pickup. I taught Rhetoric a long while back and we analyzed the 1960 Nixon-Kennedy debate by playing the radio[hot medium] version to one "randomly selected group and showed the black and white television version to another group. A radical and statistically significant result was obtained by the different treatments or mediums. We also ran a parrallel radio/TV to two [2] groups of debate judges and again got roughly matching results. I am curious to see how each of you would have reacted to Paul's words with your eyes closed. Thanks for an interesting observation. I tend almost exclusively to listen to speechs and at a lower conscious level "see" them. Adam