We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
A NIGHT ON BALD MOUNTAIN.
- Authors
Hillbruner, Anthony
- Abstract
This article offers observation on a speech by Robert Welch, president of the John Birch Society, delivered at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California on April 11, 1961. The speech itself consisted of almost two hours of largely unrelated, unstructured, sometimes incomprehensible, and most times logically inadequate variations on a theme by the late senator Joe McCarthy: the loss of the U.S. to a socialist ideology as a result of the communization of both the state and federal governments. Insofar as style is concerned, the introduction was hardly exemplary. Rather than containing the conversational speech rhythms that audiences like to hear, and that are easy to follow, this section contained the beat and rhythm of written discourse of the most ineffective kind. The lack of success here was due in part to Welch's use of high order abstractions to indicate his position, but in part, also, to lengthy sentences.
- Subjects
LOS Angeles (Calif.); CALIFORNIA; SPEECHES, addresses, etc.; WELCH, Robert; COMMUNISM
- Publication
Today's Speech, 1962, Vol 10, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0040-8573
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/01463376209385232