Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will hold special interest as the first in which a woman has conducted the Boston Symphony. From what can be ascertained in the Glee Club rehearsals which Mlle. Boulanger has directed, she is not quite so skillful in the actual mechanics of conducting as she is brilliant in her verbal explanations of the effects she desires. Consequently there is a slight feeling of insecurity among the undergraduate singers which would probably not be felt by the members of a professional orchestra...
...Pool Game" proves that he can create an objective tableau which has artistic form. "Letters to Christopher," by Mcrle Hoyleman, are strangely captivating. Perhaps the best writing is found in Delmore Schwartz's two stories, of which "The Commencement Day Address" is admirable for its moral as well as verbal edge...
...that revival of the old New England town meeting was needed to make democracy work, he began in 1935 to put on a weekly town meeting demonstration in Town Hall for a nation-wide radio audience. Soon a good part of the U. S. population was listening to his verbal prize fights and Town Hall had overflow audiences. Some 700 groups have been formed in many a U. S. town to listen to Town Hall's programs and discuss them afterwards. To foster local town meetings all over the U. S.. the League for Political Education, changing...
Besides, the slip of the tongue is to the radio broadcast as the typographical error is to the printed page. To paraphrase, it is hard to teach an old speechmaker new verbal tricks, or to accustom him to an accepted pronunciation when he has been in the habit of using another. And as the radio magnifies so many things, it magnifies these mistakes. Some peculiarities in the mouths of celebrated persons have become so famous that the speaker dare not change them without risking the charge of affectation. In this connection, a famous speaker whose "raddio" was a standing subject...
Dubbed an "unnecessary frill" by the Colony's critics, the prison debating team last year trounced M. I. T. Later in the season the convict debaters will wage verbal war with Brown and M. I. T. among other opponents. All the debates have been at the prison...