Raconteurs and After-dinner Speakers
- Barry Cryer (born 1935)
- Lance Percival (born 1933)
- Peter Ustinov (1921–2004)
- Rick Wakeman (born 1949)
- Kenneth Williams (1926–1988)
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“There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten—before the end is told—even if there happens to be any end to it.”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
“The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its perceptions, its attitudes, and its goals, for through it, the speakers absorb entrenched attitudes. The guilt of English then must be recognized and appreciated before its continued use can be advocated.”
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