SPEECH-MAKERS
"Exposition must- become, drama, must reach the motives * and wants. Drama is always quick life. It means movement, action, and the stirring and satisfying of fundamental desires. . This is the only sure way to interest men and Women. We are emotional bundles of eager : demands, and reasoning interests.us only as-ttr serves these wants," says MrWilliam G. Hoffman. " Speaking must have some allure, some thrill. Nothing is more discouraging than to have a speaker dryly ann6uncr.MsT6gigj;te3l'' us under what heads"he will treat'it, and then proceed doggedly ta explain everything the audience has foreseen in a flash. If-he reads 'a manuscript, we see the pile slowly diminish, and we speculate in torture about the last sheet. Dull speakers make/jpoints clearly enough, but these are usually too obvious or unimportant. Philosophers of speech tell: Us. four main purposes in talk: (1) TO" inform, (2) to impress, (3) tp.convince orpersaade, (4) to entertain."
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Waipa Post, Volume 81, Issue 3691, 29 November 1935, Page 3
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