Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that his job would be the most difficult in Japan. He knew that in acquitting it he should never try to dominate these demagogues; he should use them. Quickly he came to the point: ". . . Though I am an older man than most here, I will not shrink from exchanging verbal blows with...
Renovation fell upon Yosuke Matsuoka like a lash across the shoulder blades, unexpectedly, unpleasantly, from behind. He had tossed verbal blows with his staff for only 72 hours when it came. It came not from his own ambitious mind, not from the Emperor or Prince Konoye or the Army-but from a fountain pen in a hand which wrote the words Franklin D. Roosevelt. The signature was set under an executive order which amounted to an embargo on oil and scrap iron. Japan had been getting an average of 70% and 90% respectively of her supply of these vital...
...dreadful that the pressure of it has nowhere contributed to bringing man out more distinctly, to forcing him . . . face to face with God, as great tribulations in earlier times had the power to do. On the plane meanwhile cultivated, on which the newspapers are able to give a conscienceless verbal cross section of all that happens ... an incessant equalizing of all tensions is created and humanity becomes accustomed continually to accept a world of news in place of realities which no one has time or is minded any more to let grow large and heavy within them. I never...
...verbal preparedness blitzkrieg, the New York Times last Friday urged immediate adoption of "compulsory universal military training for America" because the "logic of events drives us remorselessly to this conclusion." Their bombshell was followed over the week-end by speeches and resolutions of interventionist groups praising the proposal to the skies. For most persons the question of conscription has crystallized the whole problem of preparedness--when and for what--and must be thoroughly investigated before a decision is reached. Such an extreme change in American living cannot be hysterically rubber-stamped. The crux of the decision pro or con compulsory...
...represent "emotional involvement"? I offer in evidence Dr. Zipf's letter, using phrases such as "Benedict Arnolds," "despicable type of disloyalty," "educated fool," "copperheads," "hypocritical agitation under cover of the academic gown" (cf. the full text of his letter in the "Herald"). The unreflective emotional content of a verbal communication is often directly proportional to the number of such phrases and adjectives. Any appeal to reason is hindered by their use. This criticism, if valid, applies to Professor McLaughlin's communications as well as to that of Dr. Zipf. Charles H. Taylor, Associate Professor of History...