Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their orders were then mostly verbal...
Richard III (by William Shakespeare; produced by Theater Productions) is Broadway's only revival of Shakespeare this season. It is not a very rewarding one. Richard III is second-rate Shakespeare, lacking depth, dimension, verbal magic. But in its evil, hunchbacked hero, mounting through blood and stealth to the throne he covets, it has a thumping good stage character. Arrogant, brilliant, constantly dissembling before others but never deceiving himself, murdering without a qualm his followers, his friends, his sovereign, his brother, his little nephews, Richard can be a fascinating villain. Two centuries of notable actors, from Garrick to John...
...story of the HBSA Executive Council's most recent rift is one of verbal disorder between a Republican majority and a Democratic minority...
...politics o the Jackson and Grant administrations. The corruption and inefficiency consequent from mass appointments was realized when Andrew Jackson's friends tracked mud into the White House and into government agencies. A "big stick" in the hand of Teddy Roosevelt sponsored the infancy of civil service, but the verbal discipline of Franklin Roosevelt has not sufficed to prevent the rebirth of the old child of confusion...
...struggle in this fourth dimensional drama remains a strictly verbal one and of course Shakespeare remains far in the lead from the first round with his mastery of alliteration, and all the rest of that stuff that goes to make up the English language...