Word: verbalism
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After three weeks in a coma following a prolonged illness in 1996, a press release from the John Hunter Hospital announced that premiere Australian poet Les Murray was once again “conscious and verbal...
Since his reawakening Murray has been both conscious and quite verbal, compiling 64 of the poems he has written in the past four years into a collection he named after the proclamation on that day, Conscious and Verbal, an arrangement he dubs posthumous. Although Murray is well known in Australia, his fame extends far beyond the borders of his beloved nation. His collection Subhuman Redneck Poems received the T.S. Eliot Prize and he has been awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry, presented by Queen Elizabeth. His newest collection shows his scope, depth and maturity as a world-class poet...
...first glance, it's hard to imagine two men less alike. Bush has had his share of verbal stumbles; Churchill never uttered a sentence that didn't stiffen spines. Bush is fit; Churchill was whatever is fitness's opposite. Bush has forsworn the demon drink; when Churchill stayed with Roosevelt in the White House over Christmas 1941, he instructed Roosevelt's butler that he needed a tumbler of sherry in his room before breakfast, a couple of glasses of Scotch and soda before lunch, and French champagne and 90-year-old brandy before he went to sleep. About the only...
...Still, it was hard not to admire the speech. The verbal miscues for which the President is known seemed, for the most part, absent. The speech?s simple and plain-spoken language served him better than the loftier rhetoric of, say, his inaugural address or his stem-cell decision talk. He seemed emotional but steady, confident but not cocky. "This will not be an age of terror," was simple and surefooted. His paeans to bipartisanship were obvious but also necessary and well done...
...Still, it was hard not to admire the speech. The verbal miscues for which the President is known seemed, for the most part, absent. The speech?s simple and plain-spoken language served him better than the loftier rhetoric of, say, his inaugural address or his stem-cell decision talk. He seemed emotional but steady, confident but not cocky. "This will not be an age of terror," was simple and surefooted. His paeans to bipartisanship were obvious but also necessary and well done...