Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trial and the drabness of life in London's Wormwood Scrubs prison (where he was set to work sewing mail sacks) had put him in a mood to talk, and he did his best to describe a man to whom he had turned over documents and verbal messages in the U.S. The go-between, he said, was a short, stocky, soft-spoken fellow with Slavic features, an oval face and a penchant for pin-striped suits. His conversation reflected scientific training. But what was his name? Where did he live? What was his background? Fuchs had never found...
Coonily resolved not to give away any verbal valuables, they discussed their experiences as reticently as poker players being questioned about a good hand. But it was soon obvious that Communist China too had been a kind of never-never land for them, a place full of benign Oriental maniacs with no respect for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps...
Broadcasting from Los Angeles, Groucho has a naturally fertile field for zany contestants. But, not content to take just what turns up in studio audiences, his scouts are out beating the bushes for people with strange jobs and enough gabbiness to heighten Marx's verbal asides. He is often topped, as he was when he asked an elderly woman what people were wearing when she was a baby. Her answer: "Diapers." And he was almost speechless for once when a burlesque-show employee identified a stripteaser as "an anatomy award winner...
...search of a role, most plays in book form are dull reading. Without props or actors to create illusion and vitality, they make an intolerable demand on the average reader's imagination. A Shakespeare becomes an exception through an excess of sheer creative power, a Shaw through saucy verbal glitter, but so far there has been just one Shakespeare and one Shaw. With The Cocktail Party, T. S. Eliot moved very close to the select circle of playwrights who can be read with pleasure. With The Lady's Not for Burning, Britain's Christopher Fry (TIME, April...
...costly to defend, even when the doctor wins, Dr. Regan and the County Medical Association are concentrating on trying to prevent them. For example, a doctor must not tell a patient that a broken limb will be "as good as new," for that can be regarded as a verbal contract. He must not promise a cure...