Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time with a lot more success. He let the men and women on the telephone ask their question in their own voices instead of filtering them through an oily moderator, he decorated the proceedings with celebrities, and kept big Ed Muskie at his side to check bouts of verbal diarrhea...
...announcements merely "impolitic" or "stupid." His confidence in words and the possibility of making sense may appear out of place in these McLuhanesque times, but for a man who insists that reality begins and ends with the Word, there may be no other choice. "Most of the anti-verbal, antilogical activity I see is stimulation, not communication," he says. Whatever value it has to individuals, it is not conceivably the basis on which a culture can be sustained...
...this poisonously introspective era, when everyone talks of the unconscious and a few people believe in it, Heimert's verbal rough-housing may seem a flight from even the possibility of self-recognition. His own view of the constant alteration of point-of-view is that it is the most direct form of personal education. "What else can you mean by consciousness expanding," he asks, "than the attempt to comprehend all the life styles in an age?" This is his short-hand way of expressing the old desire for transcendence. A man who is nothing, after all, is potentially everything...
...attractive men would run the federal show--had been settled for the time being. Fifteen minutes of Gene was no longer Heaven--especially since it followed interminable harangues by the likes of Richard Goodwin, Shirley MacLaine, and Michael Schwartz. Paul O'Dwyer's charming brogue and John Gilligan's verbal restraint were a bit more encouraging, though the feeling lurked that both were probable losers come November...
...Soul Massager. Schiller also fought through legislation providing for Keynesian control of the economy from the top, a council of economic "wise men," and four-year fiscal planning where none had existed before. Other Schiller ideas and slogans came in salvos. He junked the verbal Seelen-massagen (soul massages) that Erhard used to aim at German employers and unions. He substituted regular private sessions with business and labor at which he preaches "social symmetry," his way of describing wage and price restraint and equilibrium...