Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems fairly obvious, therefore, that discussion must remain an integral part of the educative process. It probably does not make too much difference if a lecture is televised, for there is no verbal interaction between instructor and student, and students in the back rows are apt to get less of the lectures personality than they would over a TV screen anyway...
Capote's record will be a delight to all who like to see heavy political objects fly through the air at the whim of an expert in verbal judo.* Once described by a friend-famed Photographer Cecil Beaton -as a "pocket Hercules," Capote has performed a notable labor...
...pointing up the benefits to the college Shahn mentioned that artists could stimulate imagination and provide a more human view, helping to unify culture. Art, he said, could give students more than just verbal knowledge; it could give them intuitive and perceptive knowledge...
...half a Juliet really in love with Romeo, half an actress merely in love with her role. In that tender trap of a part-Romeo-Actor Neville was sometimes graceful, but, as with his Richard, never simple enough, and, like too many other Romeos, never real. For all its verbal magic the play itself is far from a dramatic blessing. It is not among Shakespeare's true tragedies, but only his Tragedy of Errors; the triumphant embodiment of Romeo and Juliet is less Shakespeare's play than Berlioz' music...
...pleasant nonsense, and if Roosevelt had been present, he would have appreciated it. But not too many years later. Al was pouring verbal vitriol on an F.D.R. whom he had come to see as an enemy of U.S. institutions. Two recent books make this understandable, though neither one succeeds in really pinning down its man. The Happy Warrior, by Emily Smith Warner, is so obviously a daughter's accolade that one of the most colorful politicians in U.S. history can scarcely be seen through the swaddling layers of worshipfulness. Yet something of his genuineness, of his dedication...