Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critic of his times, Hogarth was the visual counterpart to his great verbal contemporaries-Swift, Pope and Defoe. "The proper study of mankind is man," wrote Pope; Hogarth agreed in paint. Satire was his sword-and just how sharp it was can be seen in the current exhibition of 110 paintings, prints and drawings at Richmond's Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the biggest public showing of Hogarth in U.S. history...
...killing two of them in the process, the Hills moved to Connecticut and shunned further publicity. But in 1955, Playwright Joseph Hayes dramatized a similar ordeal of the "Hilliard" family in The Desperate Hours. In the Hayes version, the convicts beat Mr. Hilliard and subjected his daughter to a verbal sexual insult...
...visual effect of II Combattimento was less satisfactory. Director Ian Strasfogel made a noble effort to overcome the difficulties inherent in staging a pantomine which has to move as slowly as its verbal description; but the rather stylized battle he gave Titus and Miss Mandac was unimaginative and full of gaps in which nothing in particular happened. The abstract slides projected on a blackboard behind the performers added little or nothing, and the sunset that appeared behind Clorinda's dying speech was downright embarrassing...
...bumped up by Mao to No. 4 rank in the ruling hierarchy-trailing only Mao himself, Lin Piao and the durable Red Chinese Premier Chou Enlai. Until last week Ta' Chu had been one of the few certified Mao heroes of the revolution, providing much of the verbal firepower for the purge. But Chiang Ching denounced Tao Chu last week as a "bourgeois reactionary," one of the dirtiest epithets in the Maoist lexicon; and immediately the Red Guards responded. One version, in fact, had it that Tao Chu had been publicly humiliated in the streets of Peking...
Unpublished but dedicated men would gladly clarify this to say you are frightened by the verbal game that you yourself play in your own angry fight for status and identity...