Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Warmth folk-ins have attracted as many as 120 people, Somit said, but a dozen people has been a good crowd for other nights. Activities planned for the future include non-verbal communication experiences, kite fly-ins on the Charles, body paint-ins, and reverse trick-or-treat, with volunteers going from house to house distributing candy...
...kind of mental narcissism. A Cliffie described her withdrawal this way: "I stared at myself in a mirror and saw my face reflected in my pupils. In that inner face was another face reflected, and in that another, and in that another...." A student who characterized himself as very verbal noticed he was becoming less and less talkative. Another student spent hours writing in his journal...
Unfortunately, Kerouac lacks the verbal talent to match his passionate commitment to the truth in himself. He suffers from a breathless style and the frequent burble of "fine writing." His book must be reluctantly put down with the thought that here is another monument brave in conception but botched by clumsy chisels...
...clash of interests in the mission was clear: the Americans were engaged in delicate negotiations to free the Pueblo's 82 crewmen, while Seoul, shaken by North Korea's escalating border raids was demanding pronouncements of American anger with the North Koreans. Vance avoided the verbal pyrotechnics which might have jeopardized the Pueblo talks, but at the same time the squawking South Koreans got essentially what they wanted. Vance's mere presence--and the 200 jet fighters the U.S. rushed to Korea--had the effect of renewing the blanket American commitment...
...Gatto, the pint-sized captainelect of the Harvard varsity football team, will take a verbal shot at the Yale varsity football team Monday at Woolsey Hall in New Haven...