Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sixteenth-century English writer once said: "Everyone talks of freedom, but there are but few that act for freedom, and the actors for freedom are oppressed by the talkers and verbal professors of freedom." (Gerrard Winstanley...
...Brazil's free-swinging politics, violence is often more than verbal. Rip-roaring fist fights sometimes punctuate the debates in the modernistic chambers of the national Congress in Brasilia. Many a lawmaker packs a pistol, which can be used-as one Congressman recently discovered-to assure undivided attention to a speech...
...Foreign Secretary. More important, two of the party's progressive leaders were so incensed at the selection that they refused to remain in the government. The loss of Iain Macleod, co-chairman of the Tory Party, and of Health Minister Enoch Powell is a scar that no amount of verbal veneer can conceal...
...found that isolation was perhaps the greatest problem facing the undergraduate artist," said T. Lux Feininger, who resigned as Harvard's last teacher of painting in 1962. Student artists agree. They find, as many critics have observed, that Harvard is a community with limited appreciation and respect for non-verbal communication...
There are many people, however, who have decided that their vocation must lie in some visual field. These people have little choice at Harvard but to major in Fine Arts. The curriculum rarely satisfies them. In the first place, they complain, Harvard's Fine Arts courses encourage a verbal, rather than visual, appreciation of art. There is too much emphasis on merely collecting and spouting back the material presented in lectures and far too little on actually looking at the works discussed. Students are not trained to see. They learn about paintings and statues as historical events, not as unique...