Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frederic A. Pennington's seminar on "The Critical Process and the Verbal Construct: Problems in the Structure of Language and the Meaning of Meaning" resumed meeting last night under the auspices of the Harvard Advocate...
...Quadros, Brazil's mercurial onetime President, who abdicated in 1961. Before the election, when a priest called Bosch a "Marxist-Leninist." he became so inflamed that he withdrew completely from the campaign-only to return to the race a few days later. Periodically, he has gone on verbal rampages, lashing out at his country's rich, criticizing the Alliance for Progress, and denouncing a big contract recently signed by Standard Oil of New Jersey and the provisional government that he succeeds...
...catch comes in the admission of this definition. In order to accept it one would have to admit a whole set of terms, "learned words," "verbal connections," "inspiration phase," and doubtless many others. Then words like "passionate," "creativity," and "courage" are invoked to invest the whole with so thoroughly romantic a context that only the unfeeling would resist. Mr. Sollod on the other hand asserts that maybe research in this area could lead to information about phenomena which are again described in terms that presuppose all the paraphernalia of this one school of psychological thinking...
Perhaps a reminder is in order that there are other points of view about spiritual phenomena that are, albeit older and less fashionable, at least as legitimate as the "learned words and verbal connections" line. The fact that large institutions and complex disciplines are founded on these new theories does not mitigate the arbitrary nature of their initial acceptance...
Certainly, research into the subjective reality of abnormal mental states could lead to a better understanding of many objectively important non-verbal states such as love, faith, and conversion. The writings of Durkheim and Weber were produced because of a realization of the importance of subjective states of mind. Perhaps knowledge such as Leary might provide could fill a blind spot concerning our inadequate notion of the type of transcendental subjective experience which has not only been the focus of traditional Western religion and many Asian cultures, but which also plays an important role is such diverse modern sociological phenomena...