During a phone conversation with me from Florida in February 2005, he mentioned a certain ¡°young fellow¡± in national politics. The name eluded him but, Mr. Sheppard said, ¡°he struck me as someone who is going to be heard from again and again and again.¡±
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Mr. Sheppard, who died on Sunday three months short of turning 100, rooted his assessment in Mr. Obama¡¯s gifts as a public speaker, which had been well displayed the previous summer when he delivered a soaring keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.
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It was not surprising that the professional announcer would be captivated. It had nothing to do with Mr. Obama¡¯s politics.
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Mr. Sheppard was more than a man behind a microphone, albeit one graced with a voice that sent sportswriters to the thesaurus in search of adjectives equivalent to sonorous, dignified, mellifluous and stately. For decades, he taught speech at St. John¡¯s University and John Adams High School in Queens, the borough where he grew up. He understood that clear, smooth speech is something everyone should strive for, and treasure.
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Mr. Obama¡¯s skills in this department are invoked by both those who hate him and those who love him.
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wow gold, The haters say that delivering a fancy speech is all he is good at. The ardent admirers are at times so smitten with his words that they practically assume he can walk on water; some then become disillusioned when it turns out that he can¡¯t. Somewhere closer to the middle, the real man is lost.
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