Word: verbale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...palmists bits of derring-do in earlier Bogart pieces. Jennifer Jones, with blonde hair and a sometimes British accent, accounts for much of the dialogue in situations. As a woman who, while not exactly a liar, "relies more on her imagination than on her memory," she keeps the verbal stew bubbling with a series of fantastic stories. But the authors are kind to all the actors, and everyone has his share of marvelous lines...
...that McCarthy and Roy Cohn, his committee counsel, had conducted one of the most outrageous operations in the history of political pressure cooking. Before the week was out, even such staunch conservative Republicans as Michigan's Senator Charles Potter and Illinois' Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen were throwing verbal brickbats at McCarthy...
...racing the UG. I feel that if you can afford to take that risk, so can I, and that if you really must continue violent projects against me or my family you are certainly going to have competition ... No doubt the handling of the g~n case, especially the verbal parts and certain reports that have come to your recent attention, not only from the intelligence but from the Foreign 0. lead you to believe that the UG, both from domestic and international reasons, dreads nothing so much as an exposure of your activities. As regards the Pres...
Much of this view of life and death is as old as the Stoics and as new as the Existentialists. Where Jean Giono differs from both Marcus Aurelius and Jean-Paul Sartre is in his addiction to verbal color and sensuous imagery. The Horseman on the Roof is an orgy of symbolic corpses, stinks, carrion crows and flesh-eating nightingales, interspersed with involved philosophical breedings and brisked up with epigrams ("Cavalrymen like women to scream"; "I'm afraid of grocers when they have guns"). But. like most contemporary philosophical novelists, Giono makes no real effort to be clear...
...with angels (in the art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance she is depicted as receiving the sacraments at the hands of angels, as being borne up to heaven by angels, etc.) But the Magdalene symbolism in The Confidential Clerk is visual and dramatic as well as verbal. In the first act of the play, Lucasta Angel enters wearing a dress with large red flowers at the bosom. Red is the symbol of love and the color which is associated with Mary Magdalene early in her career. Throughout the act, a gold spotlight is trained on Lucasta, which...