Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Premier Malenkov's announcement that Russia has the hydrogen bomb was aimed at the U.S., and as a verbal bombshell it was something of a dud. In Washington there was none of the ashen-faced confusion that followed the discovery, in 1949, that the Russians had exploded an atomic bomb. President Eisenhower heard the news and an hour later took off for Denver and vacation without comment...
...bishop called Jackson a liar, and demanded that the committee give him a public hearing. It agreed, and last week Methodist Leader Oxnam vigorously attacked the committee members face to face during six long hours of verbal combat, before hundreds of applauding fellow churchmen. The bishop said the committee methods gave rise to a "new . . . Ku-Kluxism," and flatly denied any sympathy whatsoever with Communism. He also denied belonging to a good part of a long list of front organizations about which committee members questioned...
...Administration, which thinks there is too much loose talk about a coming recession, is planning its own verbal counterattack. Government officials have been advised to take every opportunity in their speeches to play up the strength of the economy. To keep better tabs on business conditions, the new Government agency, ABEGS (Advisory Board on Economic Growth and Stability), is making special studies on such weather-vane industries as autos, appliances and apparel, so that any serious trouble can be spotted early...
...naughty dialogue. The Moon is a nice little picture. Its amorous skirmishes are verbal rather than real. Author F. Hugh (Kiss and Tell) Herbert calls it "a provocative comedy of purity." It has also been described as a bedroom farce set in a living room...
Some English critics have classed Musil with James Joyce and Marcel Proust. Judging by the translated section, this is too much praise. Musil lacks Joyce's verbal liveliness and inventiveness, Proust's sensitivity to the most subtle gradations of social rank. More important, he lacks the creative spontaneity and abundance which mark their work. Where they were artists who sometimes felt a need to write as philosophers, Musil reads like a philosopher who felt a need to write as an artist...