Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...younger writers are turning away from technical experiments. In John Berryman's fine story, The Imaginary Jew, in Delmore Schwartz's poetic probing of the Oedipus complex ("the child must carry his fathers on his back"), and in Randall Jarrell's savage war poetry, verbal high jinks are replaced by untortured statement and controlled emotion...
Professor Skinner's talk was concerned with "Multiple Sources of Verbal Strength...
...entire William James series deals as a whole with problems related to "Verbal Behavior...
...macabre sense of humor, who must have sniggered as he conjured up Henreid, Hepburn, Daniell, and Bob Walker as grotesque caricatures of Robert and Clara Schumann, Liszt, and Brahms. By all the orthodox criteria of movie criticism, "Song of Love" is eminently eligible for that glib type of verbal massage so familiar to readers of Wolcott Gibbs...
Although the verbal battle between Dick Harlow and Crusader head mentor "Ox" DaGrosa over an allegedly illegal screen-pass used by the latter has filled the local dailies for the past week, it is unlikely that spectators will get to see the play today. Referees also read the papers. Stadium Lincups Kickoff at 2 O'Clock Florontino (180) lc (188) Halliday Houston (200) lt (251) Palmer Drvaric (190) lg (259) DiGangi Stone (180) c (198) Deffley Feinberg (183) rg (192) Relliy Pierce (215) rt (240) Parker Hill (180) re (205) Costello O'Donnell (160) qb (194) Brennan Noonan...