Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through-H. international relations, race relations, the Battle of Britain, the royal family, hale and hollow clergymen, logical positivism, concert singers and pianists, capital punishment, and buyers of pornographic books. British dithering and deadpanning account for as many laughs in these skits as the lines themselves, but plenty of verbal darts...
...internal analogs of these goals are consciousness, freedom, and "fun-love," respectively. Behavioristic psychology, he said, has focused on what is important to the observer, omitting what is important to the consciousness of the subjects. Leary's concern is to help people attain their inner goals" freedom from their verbal learned past, and an all-encompassing unity and love which transcends ego-identity. He chooses to use consciousness-expanding drugs...
...Adams seminar Pennington has drawn fifty students. He has entitled the seminar "The Critical Process and the Verbal Construct...
...verbal powder and smoke of the present Cuban crisis, it is fairly easy to forget about the tiny South American country on the Caribbean coast whose people have elected, by conventional parliamentary procedure, an avowed Marxist as their prime minister. Under the leadership of Dr. Cheddi Jagan, British Guiana has been attempting since 1953 to pursue a policy of gradual socialism in the domestic sphere and a policy of neutralism abroad...
...Odyssey. But to four lively classicists at the University of Texas, who have just launched a pert quarterly called Arion, the field cries out for even zestier treatment. Arion has set out to banish the philological quibbling and fusty Victorian translations that have stupefied students for generations. Applying the verbal and visual techniques of Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Henry James and the movies, it aims to reawaken pleasure in the wit and wisdom that once served as the main dish of education. Arion clearly reflects the exuberant yet scrupulous hand of Co-Editor William Arrowsmith, 38, translator...