When he is not writing, he talks in the same measured, ironic voice as his prose, with the same fluency and intellectual momentum, as if he were troubled by the thought that he might never find another audience.
Dorel Sandor, a political analyst, said that Mr. Roman, for example, is respected by intellectuals and the young; his fluency in English, French and Spanish help make him Romania's best-known political face abroad.
His novel has many voices: Sarah's taut blithe fluency, that of an upper-class intellectual; Slater's bluff, irresistibly British effrontery; Chubb's defensive meander punctuated with Australian and Malay expressions; Mulaha's elaborate courtesies; a Chinese-Malaysian woman's aggressively fractured English all without benefit of quotation marks.
His novel has many voices: Sarah's taut blithe fluency, that of an upper-class intellectual; Slater's bluff, irresistibly British effrontery; Chubb's defensive meander punctuated with Australian and Malay expressions; Mulaha's elaborate courtesies; a Chinese-Malaysian woman's aggressively fractured English — all without benefit of quotation marks.
Some of the fluency stems from Bronowski's greedy enthusiasm for intellectual adventure, including poetry (I still have his 1972 book William Blake and the Age of Revolution, and felicitously, a new scholarly monograph from Imprint Academic, The Happy Passion by Antony James, tells us a lot more about Bronowski's output).
We set out to examine these questions in a large British general population birth cohort in which measurements were available for development in language and motor domains in infancy, general intellectual function in childhood and adolescence, and specific neuropsychological function (eg, verbal fluency, a test of executive/frontal lobe function) in adulthood.
Simeon 1995 measured intellectual development using a wide range achievement test in the main trial, and digit spans and verbal fluency tests in subgroups.
For fluency of storytelling, "Diaghilev: A Life" easily surpasses both Mr. Buckle's dense biography "Diaghilev" and Lynn Garafola's intellectual analysis "Diaghilev's Ballets Russes" (1989).
They had to meet all of the following criteria: (1) medical treatment (inpatient or outpatient) after an RTA (collision), (2) age between 7 and 16 years, (3) fluency in German, (4) no severe head injury (Glasgow Coma Scale >11), and (5) no previous evidence of intellectual impairment (according to medical records).
Fluency, however, is declining.
