Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Josephus and the Emperor takes the inevitable tragedy a step further, tells what happens when an antiSemitic, Romanizing Emperor, the Lord and God Domitian (Dominus ac Deus Domitianus, "D.D.D." to his friends), destroys the very basis of Josephus' verbal internationalism, destroys his prestige, his son, his life. At last the broken and aging Jew, thrown back on simple nationalism, is killed in Judea by ignorant Roman horse troopers while he is trying to reach a band of Jewish rebels like those he repudiated in his youth. He is buried in his native earth, but his grave is unknown. Paradoxically...
Bald, bashful, nervous Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau had mapped his campaign like a general getting ready for a spring offensive. He had stored up quantities of materiel for verbal war. His scouts had reconnoitered the House and Senate. This week, as his adding machines rolled forward, Mr. Morgenthau invaded Congress with the greatest army of tax proposals ever seen on earth...
...popped a face-to-face verbal brawl between Virginia's pinchfist Harry Byrd, hot opponent of pensions, and Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney, who stressed the fact that he had been "absent" when the bill passed. O'Mahoney roared that Congress was being "smeared" as a "conglomeration of grab-seeking individuals.'' Shouted Byrd: "I have never smeared the members of Congress. . . . The Senator shows ignorance...
...Time to Come is yet a vivid stage document. At least twice-when the high-minded Wilson comes up against the hardheaded Lloyd George and the cynical Clemenceau, and when, back in Washington, he faces the rocklike hostility of Senator Lodge-the play crackles with verbal drama. In its treatment of issues and men it does not falsify, seldom takes sides. If it turns Wilson (Richard Gaines) into something of a hero for what he tried to do, it never for a second palliates what he was or why he failed. Its Wilson is an obstinate, opinionated, frozen-faced idealist...
...conflict of opinion as to how Germany should be treated in case she loses the war featured the first meeting of the Lowell House Symposium last night. Major Thomas Thomas, military analyst, and E.R. Halles, cable editor of the United Press, flung the verbal brickbats as they discussed anti-fascist military aims...