Word: verbalism
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...plethora of whistles and an unusual number of verbal cautions kept much of the play away from the nets and it wasn't until 11:25 of the first half that Crimson sophomore Annie MacMillan drove the ball into the crease for the game's first goal...
...Harvard professor stars in a verbal free-for-all in Boston "Drink up!" WCVB-TV Producer Claude Pelanne told the studio audience as it waited for the taping to begin. The wine glasses were quickly drained. Pelanne was not preparing the 40-odd guests for some mindless sitcom: he was readying them for Miller's Court, a Boston television show in which the audience matches wits on controversial issues of the law with Arthur Miller, a professor from the Harvard Law School. The result: an uninhibited, often dramatic and sometimes humorous encounter that now is viewed...
...second-class citizen, barely tolerated but definitely not accepted. Examples are numerous of police refusal to aid gay people being harassed or beaten; in fact, harassment of gays, by police is still widespread. Any simple demonstration of affection or even simple acknowledgement of gayness can lead to verbal abuse or physical threats--and these I have encountered at Harvard on many occasions...
...essential gloss on it. Terry Rex presents Terry (Robertson Dean), the young author of Terry Won't Talk, (which is being performed "downtown"). Terry is tortured by his inability to write, a block he tries to dissolve through both hallucinations induced by lack of sleep and random acts of verbal cruelty toward his girlfriend Kathy (Lisa Sloan) and his friends from college days, Adrienne (Marianne Owen) and Wheeler (Kenneth Ryan). There is no indication by the end of the play that his problem is solved; to the contrary, it seems that Terry will never write successfully again...
Worse perhaps than the verbal gaffe is Reagan's relentlessly simple-minded discussion of complex problems. He is aware that he is charged with this failing, and in his 1967 inaugural address on becoming Governor of California, he asserted: "We have been told there are no simple answers to complex problems. Well, the truth is there are simple answers, just not easy ones...