Jerry Monaco wrote:
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> On 5/2/07, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
> But Robespierre? Why should he be cheered so?
> He could hardly be heard when he spoke; he was stodgy, and watchful,
> so damn bourgeois. And yet there were masses of people who trusted
> him, who cheered hiim. Wonderfully strange, if you ask me.
Check out Lincoln Steffens on Lenin (in the _Autobiography). He spoke to huge crowds, but only the first 50 or so could hear him. He would give his speech. Those 50 would leave, the next 50 or so would move up. He would give the same speech. The nearest would leave, those behind would move up. Patient and anxious to hear what he had to say.
Carrol