Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OTHELLO. Playing the Moor of Venice in black face, Laurence Olivier often strikes verbal fire from the kindling poetry of Shakespeare's tragedy, but fails to ignite the smouldering passion of the inner...
Humanities 9, "Oral and Early Literature," will be given by Albert B. Lord '34, professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, who yesterday described the course an "introduction to pre-literature--verbal artistry before actual writing came about...
Cubans have long been accustomed to their Maximum Leader's vicious verbal attacks on the U.S. Last week they were delighted when he shifted his biting invective to a surprise target: Red China. In Havana's Communist daily Granma,* Fidel Castro spelled out the whole ugly story of how Peking had not only "committed a criminal act of economic aggression" by reducing its 1966 rice shipments to Cuba, but had also sent huge amounts of propaganda material into the country in an attempt to enlist the army for Peking's espionage purposes. "We have liberated ourselves from...
...Verbal Spanking. Judge Saypol, who last year upheld the constitutionality of the Condon-Wadlin Act, solemnly warned the authority not to follow "any course which would increase the compensation of the strikers in violation of the law." In Saypol's opinion, the issue at stake is nothing less than the very preservation of the rule of law. If laws that are disliked can be violated with impunity, then anarchy prevails and "liberties become useless," said the judge...
Before he was finished, he had harsh words for everyone. Not only did he denounce the Transit Authority and the union, but he also accused the city's corporation counsel of "fuzzy" thinking. Then he administered a mild verbal spanking to Attorney Weinstein as well for submitting what he regarded as an "inartistic" brief, which "leaves much to be desired...