"A performance that is merely smooth and assured is not the same as one that generates its own authority and deploys carefully wrought language to move an audience."
The last decade summed up in a single sentence. Bravo.
"We were a dead country. Now we are the hotest country anywhere in the world...this is great for all nations. The USA's economic engine on the planet..I never thought we would do it this quickly..I want to discuss how we've achieved this economic miracle..The places where you come from could do much better by following what we are doing..We sent our own force to hold [Europe], and hold it we did..After I rebuilt the military, we are bringing back battleships.." In contrasting Dr Trump's speech with Dr Carney's in Engelsberg ideas, you leave the reader in whose ears those speches ring in no doubt which was more Periclean!
No comparision of either Trump or Carney with Pericles had occurred to me before reading your piece, so I watched Bannon's clip and read up on Pericles in Wikipedia: 'Thucydides (the historian), an admirer of Pericles, maintains that Athens was "in name a democracy but, in fact, governed by its first citizen".'
Pericles’ Funeral Oration is superb. Upon my first reading early in my studies, I was instantly struck by the power of invocation to the greatness of Athens.
Thank you!!
"A performance that is merely smooth and assured is not the same as one that generates its own authority and deploys carefully wrought language to move an audience."
The last decade summed up in a single sentence. Bravo.
"We were a dead country. Now we are the hotest country anywhere in the world...this is great for all nations. The USA's economic engine on the planet..I never thought we would do it this quickly..I want to discuss how we've achieved this economic miracle..The places where you come from could do much better by following what we are doing..We sent our own force to hold [Europe], and hold it we did..After I rebuilt the military, we are bringing back battleships.." In contrasting Dr Trump's speech with Dr Carney's in Engelsberg ideas, you leave the reader in whose ears those speches ring in no doubt which was more Periclean!
In the article I quote Bannon (‘greatest speech since Pericles’) but I myself don’t call DJT’s words a speech - just ‘ruminations’…
No comparision of either Trump or Carney with Pericles had occurred to me before reading your piece, so I watched Bannon's clip and read up on Pericles in Wikipedia: 'Thucydides (the historian), an admirer of Pericles, maintains that Athens was "in name a democracy but, in fact, governed by its first citizen".'
I was put in mind of the Mytilenean debate.
Pericles’ Funeral Oration is superb. Upon my first reading early in my studies, I was instantly struck by the power of invocation to the greatness of Athens.
It is hard to rival it🏛