their voice and speech styles toward the styles of individuals in positions of power and author· ity. One study explored this phenomenon by analyzing interviews on the Larry King Live televi- sion show. When King interviewed guests having great social standing and prestige (for instance, Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Barbara Streisand), his voice style changed to match theirs. But when he interviewed guests of lower status (for instance, Dan Quayle, Spike Lee, and Julie Andrews), he remained unmoved, and their voice styles shifted to match his (Gregory & Webster, 1996). THE ALLURES AND DANGERS OF BLIND OBEDIENCE ~ READER'S REPORT 6.1 From a Texas-Based University Professor grew up in an Italian ghetto in Warren, Pennsylvania. I occasionally return Ihome to visit family and the like. As in most places these days, most of the
just "whoever committed the crime." For that matter, probably any proper name has occasional flaccid uses. Frege (1892/1952a) offers a famous example: "Trieste is no Vienna," where "Vienna" functions not as the name of a city, but as abbreviating a loose cluster of exciting cultural properties that Vienna has. In the same tone, on an occasion well remembered by American voters, 1988 Vice-Presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen told his rival Dan Quayle, "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy." But those are hardly standard uses of the names "Vienna" and "Jack Kennedy."3 Kripke offers a further little intuitive test for telling whether a term is rigid: try the term in the sentence frame, "N might not have been N." If we 48 Reference and referring plug in, for N, a description like "the President of the United States in 1970," we obtain "The President of the United States in 1970 might not have been
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