Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...observed his 65th birthday on his rambling estate in Los Angeles, the far-from-retiring Piatigorsky gave one of his inimitable offstage performances in a four-hour talk with TIME'S Los Angeles bureau chief, Marshall Berges. As these excerpts show, he is as much of a verbal virtuoso as ever...
Perhaps most disturbing of all is the sense in which Sontag seems to resent photography because it is a non-verbal, non-intellectual process. She argues repeatedly that the photographic experience is a surface experience that cannot convey real knowledge, cannot convey real understanding. She objects to the way in which "the photographer's approach. . . is unsystematic, indeed anti-systematic." And well it may be, but systematic thinking and intellectual rigor is but one form of truth. Photography--with its episodic glimpses, its focus on a single image in a world that is blurred and rushing past--presents another form...
Sontag's arrogance towards photography as a non-systematic, non-verbal mode of communication is uncalled for. Hers is, however, the world of words, and if she seems overly elitist at times, perhaps it is because she is such a master of her world. On Photography is elegantly written, thought-provoking, the kind of book that makes you impulsively write in its margins, and undoubtedly one of the most significant pieces of photographic criticism yet written...
...addition, two boat lines went back on verbal agreements last week and left Jubilee without its boat ride--scheduled to be the feature attraction for Friday night...
...third act, Hamlin is not alone on stage. He performs his play by Boris Vian stage right, while another talented performer, James Shuman, works at cross purposes stage-left. Hamlin portrays a character by Vian, and addled, compulsively verbal middle-class householder, who in the course of preceding acts has involuntarily sloughed all life's amenities, from family to furniture, and who, alone at last, must consider himself. Shuman, portraying The Smurtz, is a character from a play by Leland Moss, based, as they say in the movies, on an idea by Boris Vian. While Hamlin agonizes, Shuman methodically constructs...