Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Running David Lawrence's item immediately following Murray Kempton's was extremely efficacious. Kempton's article, which is typical of the absurd and insubstantial material utilized as verbal bombast against Nixon, adequately proves Lawrence's contention [that the renomination of Nixon was a vindication of the Vice President over the long "whispering campaign about his lack of integrity"]. The Democrats, not unlike the Communist propagandists in their techniques of unfactual and slanderous invective against Nixon, have yet to provide evidence from which they can justify the vilification of the Vice President...
...time the House had flailed its way into the third day of debate over the Administration's civil-rights bill last week, it was like a big classroom of spirited boys with teacher out sick and vacation only a few days off. Good-naturedly, the Southern Democrats exchanged verbal spitballs with Northern Republicans and Democrats while both sides talked on for the sake of the record. Everybody knew that the Southern bloc had delayed the bill* so long that it would never get by the Senate this session. So the proceedings went forward in a spirit of good, dirty...
...that people in these predicaments are, or may be, ill. The concept of illness expands continually at the expense of the concept of moral failure . . . The significance of this question of who is sick and who is sinful can not be laughed off as 'merely semantic' . . . No verbal tricks with definitions will alter the practical consequences, in our culture, of drawing the boundary between health and illness in one place rather than another...
...would be encouraging, indeed, to conclude that these verbal blunders and tactical errors constitute all of Dulles' mistakes, and that the substance of his policy is basically sound. But for a Secretary of State who has travelled more miles than any previous Cabinet officer he shows remarkably little awareness of the world situation...
...Student's Friend" Al Vellucci exchanged verbal blows with Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, one of the two Harvard graduates on the City Council, in the weekly meeting yesterday, and then helped to vote down his own proposal for confiscation of University land to solve the parking problem. A crowd of over 100 students from the College assembled at the meeting...