Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the students voted against the strike, arousing call of "AMA finks" and some verbal lashing from a few Afro students...
...Tony Richardson and Sunday Times Arts Columnist Alan Brien. As soon as Brien had a leg up on Fleet Street, he brought along his protégé. Barnes' reputation for fluency was instantly evidenced in music, drama and dance criticism."He just liked to turn on a verbal tap," recalls Brien, "bottle the words that come out and then begin filling the next bottle...
...that the former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare had prepared any deep tricks for exploiting the medium. He sometimes sat down and other times stood up in the rather unconvincing WGBH imitation office-study, delivering the three speeches in an even, almost monotonous voice, with many more verbal fluffs than one would expect from a public man of Gardner's titanic reputation...
...Nudes. Also a neat little sum at the top-for the star. At present, her contracts call for $330,000 per picture plus a percentage of the gross-with a verbal stipulation that she will not be called on to appear undraped. "I have never appeared in the nude," she boasts. "It is a very personal thing to take off your clothes. I refused to do a nude scene in 100 Rifles, and for weeks the telegrams flew back and forth, arguing about who was going to get me to do it. Finally they gave up and had some other...
...period covered in Military Philosophers, the ninth of the series, is roughly from 1942 to V-E day, an era that would seem to call for the verbal equivalent of massed bands, with effects by real cannon in the manner of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Though Powell's narration continues pianissimo, the result is far from flat. His prose is a percussion instrument, delicate but forceful because precise...