Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaigns steadily for compulsory national health insurance - which has led to frequent battles with economically orthodox medical thinkers and famed verbal brawls with Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Deutsch agrees with the A.M.A.'s scientific activities, cooperates with the association in exposing fake drugs and quacks, but he delights in the fact that a cancer-cure artist whom both had exposed sued the A.M. A. for only $250,000, Deutsch...
...want to be officially saddled with German blame for a government and a constitution which would formalize the division of Germany. In fact, the Allies would hold a veto over German decisions, and the German leaders, understandably, were ducking responsibility without full authority. The Germans suggested several verbal changes: for "government" they wanted to substitute "economic and administrative area"; for the "constitution" to be drafted in September they suggested "organizational statute." But, said Social Democratic Spokesman Erich Ollenhauer: "We are going ahead shoulder to shoulder with the task of strengthening not only Germany but all democratic Europe...
...will yet learn to treasure Shakespeare-is certainly among the more valuable men of his time. In the strict sense, his films are not creative works of cinematic art: the essential art of moving pictures is as overwhelmingly visual as the essential art of his visually charming pictures is verbal. But Olivier's films set up an equilateral triangle between the screen, the stage and literature. And between the screen, the stage and literature they establish an interplay, a shimmering splendor, of the disciplined vitality which...
Sometimes World Without Visa trembles on the edge of ten-twent'-thirt' melodrama, sometimes it seems incongruously romantic in its motivations. But all such objections are ultimately swept aside by the power with which Malaquais has raised a verbal monument to the martyrdom of Europe...
...turbulent spring of 1946, when the U.S. was paralyzed by a railroad strike, Harry Truman stormed into Congress and gave Alexander Fell Whitney, co-leader of the strike, one of the savagest verbal rawhidings ever dealt a private citizen by a President of the U.S. With that, he broke the strike. Beaten and embittered, Al Whitney swore that he would use his union's last penny to humiliate and defeat Truman. "You can't make a President out of a ribbon clerk," he bellowed...