Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most clerics think that the change is purely verbal and balk at Pike's plan Bishop Francis W. Lickfield of Quincy, Ill., head of the Anglo-Catholic American Church Union, warned that the step could create "serious division" in the church. In the end, Pike postponed the ceremony until he can argue his case before next fall's House of Bishops meeting...
Stupid and senseless? Of course not Vellucci's verbal fireworks win him headlines (sometimes big, sometimes small, but the important thing is that there are headlines). They net him votes from people who "think someone should go out after Harvard" or who just admire Vellucci's spirit. And they gain him noteriety (better than anonymity) in the Harvard-Brattle St. community...
...committee is still playing around with a lot of ideas it would like to incorporate in future programs. One major theme, for example, is "community participation"--as much as possible. To make this verbal pledge reality, committee members would like to include more local residents on specific subcommittees and hire local people as aides in some of the poverty programs. (This would have the additional effect of transferring more income to those who need...
...funnies are becoming funny again," says Comics Researcher David Manning White of Boston University. "It is a verbal humor and it sticks. It hurts a little bit." Adds Al Capp, who has produced some pungent humor of his own-and added Lower Slobbovia to popular geography-in the hillbilly world of Li'I Abner: "The new comics are the real Black Humorists." In Walt Kelly's Pogo, a group of peculiarly human denizens of Okefinokee Swamp -a cigar-chewing alligator, a bespectacled owl, a turtle sporting a derby-play with words, con one another, and offer the only...
...which Cornell President James A. Perkins warned that the artist on campus must shake off his tendency to dismiss the faculty and student amateurs as "part of an offensive mass culture." He must also face the fact that the university's reliance "on the written word and the verbal tradition" is not always compatible with his own work "in the nonverbal media of sound, color, shape, movement or voice inflection." The university, on the other hand, "will have to recognize the extent to which the artist has exposed his own psyche in his work, and treat such work with...