Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Road to Rio (Paramount). The Crosby-Hope-Lamour "Road" pictures, in the opinion of plenty of enthusiastic cinemaddicts, can lead anywhere and go on forever. Their comedy is more verbal than visual, but any kind of slapstick-one of cinema's lost arts-is rare these days. Because they fill some of the void, these loose-jointed spoof pictures at least guarantee a lot of good laughs...
...verbal joust is scheduled for 8:30 o'clock in the Lowell House Junior Common Room...
...Deadly. In the clean-scrubbed,workaday words of the scientists, the book describes "techniques and results." The very fact that such a book can be published without revealing any real secrets stresses a verbal warning by Dr. Rosebury: "Bacterial warfare can be developed by any nation, large or small, rich or poor, to which the resources of modern bacteriology are available." "Resources," in this case, can mean almost any sort of laboratory...
...season for poetry. No significant new voices pierced the shrill chirping of minor versifiers. What distinguished the year's poetry most was the high ambitions of its practitioners: their attempt to carve verbal order from life's chaos. Few succeeded...
...poet who perhaps came closest to succeeding was 68-year-old Wallace Stevens, a Hartford insurance man, in his latest book, Transport to Summer. W. H. Auden, an intellectual acrobat and a verbal magician, turned out 1947's most discussed book of verse: The Age of Anxiety. This modern eclogue described a chance meeting of four paper-thin characters in a Third Avenue bar; its moral was ex-radical Auden's glowing belief that worldly goods must be rejected. The verse itself was dexterous, bright but self-indulgent...