Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cumming's story of The Goodness of the Town has several virtues. He does not use verbal tricks. He is not impresed with his own prose. He has something to say. He says it. All of this is very reassuring in The Advocate. But I can only give a negative answer to the crucial question: "Does he say it well enough to move the reader?" There is really nothing wrong with this story, but nor is there enough right with...
...Poindexter's lines From The Sanatorium seem to be a beautiful sentence dropped at random in the middle of the Advocate. But then there is no super-abundance of beauty, even verbal beauty, in the Advocate, or elsewhere...
...sheep. He ruled his desert strip so successfully and was liked by its people so well that he stayed on after the French withdrew from Morocco. Then the Moroccan "Army of Liberation" came to pillage Tarjicht, and nine months ago Captain Moureau disappeared. But the desert has its verbal grapevine, and over this came, piece by piece, news of Captain Moureau's fate: emasculated, both arms broken, he was, when last seen alive, on exhibition in an animal's cage, chained hand and foot, dressed in the travesty of a French uniform, with an obscene inscription pinned...
...Tsentral Park," but few realize that "I search for the viscous and sawdust" is a request for whisky and soda. Devoted to the active verb and the present tense, Pnin invests the simplest acts with explosive vitality ("I never go in a hat even in winter"). In all verbal matters, Pnin would rather be wrong than hesitant, and no doughtier comic immigrant has set foot on the shores of U.S. fiction since Timofey's "tvin" dialectician...
...more than just putting on plays. In this most delightful conclusion of the Company's program, the whole cast appeared in formal dress to recite poetry and display their art in its purest form, without scenery, costumes or an imposing vehicle. They ran the gamut from the most subtle verbal effects to no words at all. Barrault's final pantomimes were the epitome of freedom within a highly stylized form. Compared to Marcel Marceau his mime was less delicate and less detailed but it had energy, spontaneity and excitement that Marceau cannot equal. The mimes conveyed best of all Barrault...