Word: verbale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taft. Stevenson attacked Eisenhower for being vague on issues (in one verbal caricature, he likened him to a fish who always "swims back under those lily pads entitled, 'I just want to do what is best for the American people.' "). But his main charge was that Eisenhower had surrendered to Taft, who "lost the nomination, but won the nominee." Said Stevenson: "When you gaze upon the five stars of Eisenhower, you must listen for the voice of Robert A. Taft." On most specific issues, e.g., labor, defense, foreign spending, foreign trade, Stevenson cited Taft's stand, said...
Foreign Trade. In New Orleans, where he was greeted by a torchlight parade organized by the Seafarers International Union (A.F.L.), Stevenson presented his hosts a verbal bouquet ("You have made an admirable civilization. It is a jambalaya containing all that makes for the body's pleasure, the mind's delight, the spirit's repose"), then discussed foreign trade, essential to New Orleans' busy port. Said Stevenson: "The "suicidal foreign-trade fanaticism" of the Republicans, who were responsible for the Hawley-Smoot tariff (1930), would kill off foreign trade, would -by not buying from Japan and Germany...
...march to the command of a dictator and nobody knows "Of any world where promises were kept/Or one could weep because another wept." But even this poem is all too predictable to anyone familiar with Auden's work. Still more predictable are Marianne Moore spinning fine verbal webs, Wallace Stevens in a suavely elegiac mood, E. E. Cummings broken out in lyrical wonder. As for the younger poets, most are earnestly prosy, weary beyond their years, and cautiously derivative...
...verbal barrage Moley said, "We find an affinity for a whole school of political sophisticates. They screen their advocacy of a super-government in a mass of pleasant verbiage. Archie MacLeish is the poet laureate of this school; Leon Henderson, its economist; Arthur Schlesinger Jr., its historian; and Stevenson, its statesman...
Loder, the cynic, and St. John, the rake, crisply thrust and parry with verbal rapiers, while Miss Best as a dowdy but direct matron blunts them both. The frame-work for all this wordplay is Loder's visit to his divorced wife (Brenda Forbes); St. John broke up the marriage five years before and is still hanging around. Miss Best, a relative from Liverpool named Jane, adds her bit to the general tension by entering and announcing her engagement to a man half...