Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capacity crowd of 4013, which had arrived more than an hour early and thoroughly booed Harvard's first appearance on the ice, created a verbal bedlam at the opening whistle that set the hurried, almost frantic New Hampshire pace early in the game...
SINCE AFRO (now represented by OBU) presented its demands to the University on November 18, the University has responded with a number of statements, both written and verbal. Far from dealing substantively with OBU's demands, these statements have exhibited a pattern of distortion and inconsistency, and possibly of deliberate deception. Against the background of Harvard's apparent unwillingness to deal seriously with OBU's legitimate demands. Friday's occupation of University Hall must be seen as a legitimate tactic for demonstrating OBU's seriousness and for pressuring the University to deal responsibly with the standing issues...
...WITH ecstatic verbal descriptions, Apollo 12 Astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean enabled millions of listeners on earth to share their experiences as they walked and worked on the surface of the moon. But the failure of the color TV camera brought to the moon aboard the lunar module Intrepid deprived earthbound watchers of the spectacular sights that should have accompanied the sounds. Last week, while the astronauts remained in quarantine aboard the carrier U.S.S. Hornet, the world finally got a close-up view of the Ocean of Storms. Movie and still films brought back by the astronauts were flown...
...connoisseur might claim that "true" poetry relies on a lot more than visceral communion with your audience. "Poetry," one might say, has to be less mortal, more enduring than Brautigan's verbal hand grenades...
Some solid achievements remain, of course. The American Language (and its supplements) has justly become a classic. Mencken's lively journalistic talents invigorated a generation of practitioners. The American Mercury waged brisk verbal war against Bostonian cultural fuddy-duddyism. The green cover of the Mercury, in fact, was once the badge of the campus intellectual. The views expressed seem far from revolutionary today, but they are more trenchant and readable than Marcuse or Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung...