Churchill as orator: wish and fulfilment

• Manfred Weidhorn ^[1]
  1. [1] Yeshiva University

     Yeshiva University

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Southern communication journal, ISSN 1041-794X, Vol. 40, nº 3, 1974, págs. 217-227
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • As a young man, Sir Winston Churchill composed an essay on the art of rhetoric and dramatized his ideas by portraying a political rally in a novel. These passages, dreams of oratorical proficiency by a soldier who had not yet approached a rostrum, say nothing about the place of body language. As Churchill came to achieve political and oratorical maturity in the subsequent decades, his delivery was shaped by a halting manner of articulation and an incapacity for spontaneous utterance. The result, a heavy reliance on body language, is clearly depicted in Harold Nicolson's graphic description of Churchill's great wartime orations in Parliament.