Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coal Miner Nye and the middleclass, intellectual Gaitskell, who had never lived in a slum or walked in a picket line. With all the passion and eloquence of his proletarian youth, Bevan raged that Gaitskell was a "desiccated calculating machine." No phrasemaker, Gaitskell did not engage Nye in verbal combat, instead coolly and shrewdly lined up the trade union rank and file behind him. When Attlee finally resigned after the Tory victory in the 1955 election, the party chose the quiet man instead of the angry Bevan to be its leader...
...Father and I sledded the oaks from the woodlot and put them down near the mill." A student of Early American craftsmanship and the author of volumes like The Seasons of America Past and American Barns and Covered Bridges. Sloane took the diary and dressed it out with verbal and graphic sketches, detailing the construction of a whole backwoods farm. Mere antiquity is not what interests him. Instead, he puts a shine and an edge on the tools of the pioneers, constantly admiring the care and skill of craftsmen who thought enough of themselves, their work, and the times they...
Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov. Always provocative, often perverse, the greatest verbal prestidigitator of his time successfully juggles a dead poet, a live scholar and an imaginary land...
...purpose of the project, according to PBH officers, is to improve the verbal skills of the youngsters in these areas. "Several of the children we work with," pointed out a reform school volunteer, "are in trouble because they become frustrated over their lack of ability to communicate. This is one of the major factors in their striking out against society...
...trying to increase their interest in books, we hope to increase their interest in improving verbal skills and hence in their ability to communicate and to relate to society in general...