Word: verbalism
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...proposals from either side. Indeed, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz made it clear late in the week that Washington is waiting warily for Moscow to take the first concrete step toward easing tensions. But American and Soviet officials did seize the opportunity to stop the angry and menacing verbal exchanges that had been escalated into a war of words during the two years that Ronald Reagan and Leonid Brezhnev led the superpowers, and to substitute cautious expressions of hope for conciliation. To use the felicitous phrase that Shultz picked up from an American reporter, the "mood music...
...refuge for himself, his wife Barbara and their three children, just in case Nostradamus' prediction of a world war comes true. The bleak side of the Teutonic soul occasionally stares out uneasily from behind the affable visage. But it is quickly dispelled with the German equivalent of a verbal shrug: "Naja," says Prey, and gloomy Faust retreats. He seems constitutionally incapable of becoming too morose. After all, when pressed, he admits that one role he would really like to sing is neither a villain nor a victim but the dashing hero of Lehar's The Merry Widow: Count...
WHAT HOLDS ALL THESE revolutionary approaches to gather is consistently superb line reading not only on the classic soliloquies but even during the endless stretches of desultory verbal fencing. He even incorporates the rarely heard second second-act prologue which summarizes the lovers developing plight...
...PATHETIC ATTEMPT last week by the Arab League to oust Israel from the United Nations arouses both anger and contempt. On the one hand, the Arab's hypocrisy in trying to go beyond their usual verbal assaults on the Jewish state inspires outrage. On the other hand, the counter-productive short-sightedness the Libyan-led move displayed seems evident...
DIED. Anna Freud, 86, pioneer of child psychoanalysis, whose theories advanced the work of her famous father Sigmund; in London. She opposed those who advocated the analysis of pre-verbal children and emphasized the purposeful care of parents and teachers. Applying in practice what she asserted on paper (in eight eloquent volumes), the self-effacing Freud established the first day nursery in Vienna and trained a generation of followers at the celebrated Hampstead Child-Therapy Clinic in England. She habitually shunned publicity and deferred to the parent whom she nursed in life and steadfastly defended in death. "I didn...