A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.
Source: Aneuon Bevan, Vol. 1, ch. 13, 1962.
-- Michael Foot, (Jul 23 1913-2010), English politician, journalist; He is an intellectual left-wing socialist who led Britain's Labour Party, 1980-1983; wrote Debts of Honour, 1980.