Word: verbalism
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...book form his essays stand up well. They are not meant to be read all together at one sitting, but to be savored, like stuffed peppers in chili sauce. If one dare bother to complain, Allen may not be clever enough. His stories are a form of verbal slapstick; he is desperately self-conscious when he puns...
Sociologist Dane Archer cites Dr. Bell's deductive skill as an example of a subtle ability totally different from the verbal and mathematical capacities measured by standard IQ tests. He calls it social intelligence, or the knack of picking up nonverbal signals. In his book How to Expand Your Social Intelligence Quotient (M. Evans; $9.95), Archer writes that while a high S.I. helped make Bell a great doctor, today's medical schools, psychiatric institutes and other professional training centers ignore it when picking their students. Says he: "Verbal intelligence has a dismal record for predicting success...
...heads the combined opposition of Christian Democrats and Christian Socialists, calls the campaign West Germany's "dirtiest ever." He has also taken the brunt of abuse, since his round face, bull neck and stocky shape delight cartoonists, and his flowery, right-wing rhetoric provides opponents with plenty of verbal ammunition. Strauss has long been a béte noire for many West Germans; his decision to seek the nation's most important political office has galvanized his enemies into a frenzy of mudslinging...
...risky, as Gerald Ford learned in Detroit, where his appearance irritated a watching Reagan. But it was Cronkite, not Ford, who in the words of the New Republic's John Osborne, had "gratuitously and disastrously" characterized Ford's terms as "something like a co-presidency." Such verbal overkill is uncharacteristic of Cronkite, an anchorman as gifted as any at noting profoundly that we now have "an interesting situation...
This was all part of the famous "Johnson treatment": an allfours assault accompanied by a nonstop verbal barrage. Ben Bradlee, executive editor of the Washington Post, remembers: "One hand was shaking your hand; the other hand was some place else, exploring you, examining you... He'd be feeling up Katharine Graham and bumping Meg Greenfield on the boobs. And at the same time he'd be trying to persuade you of something...