Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arch Aiken to be known as "Mistaken Aiken"--suggested by local Bolsheviki, well known to Arch after their many verbal encounters. (Despite press notices to the contrary Arch reported a quiet weekend on Manhattan last week; and he went mainly because "the train affords plenty of time for the Manual and Memo...
...economically with centrally directed economic planning on a colossal scale, which has hardly begun as yet to operate, then TIME magazine owes it to the America it believes in to present facts, studies, analyses, objective reporting, and soundly based mature conclusions rather than the stream of adolescent sneers and verbal spitballs in which TIME is now indulging and which does your competent journal no credit whatsoever...
...cleverness of Hollywood Pinafore, furthermore, is so insistently verbal that the show sadly lacks the bounce, pace, bodily movement that should go with a musical. Chained to one set, it does not even-except except for a lively Antony Tudor ballet - rattle its chains with dancing. The show boils down, in the end, to some smart lyrics, snappy lines, Victor Moore's mis cast charm, Shirley Booth's comic poise, Annamary Dickey's singing, Viola Essen's dancing - and Sullivan's delightful but rather dry-docked score...
Stunning Resonance. Meanwhile the Labor Party conference at Blackpool ended a week of stunning resonance with a series of verbal thunderclaps. The mood of British labor, echoing Europe's mood of social change, was grimly set by Aneurin Bevan, leftist M.P.: "We want the complete extinction of the Tory Party and 25 years of Labor government." The Labor Party's program was outlined in a sweeping nationalization program for "a Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain" (TIME...
Suddenly, out of the literary bushes dashed Bernard Shaw, twirling his verbal shillelagh. To the London Times he wrote...