... and then President Robbins began to speak.
After two sentences one realized once more that President Robbins was an extraordinary speaker, a speaker of a—one says an almost extinct school, but how does one say the opposite? a not-yet-evolved school? He did something so logical that it is impossibe that no one else should have thought of it, yet no one has. President Robbins crooned his speeches.
His voice not only took you into his confidence, it laid a fire for you and put your slippers by it and then went into the other room to get into something more comfortable. It was a Compromising voice.


Chapter 1, p. 25 - Pictures from an Institution (1954)

Randall Jarrell Quotes

And then President Robbins began to speak. After two sentences one realized once more that President Robbins was an extraordinary speaker, a speaker...

And then President Robbins began to speak. After two sentences one realized once more that President Robbins was an extraordinary speaker, a speaker...

And then President Robbins began to speak. After two sentences one realized once more that President Robbins was an extraordinary speaker, a speaker...

And then President Robbins began to speak. After two sentences one realized once more that President Robbins was an extraordinary speaker, a speaker...