Word: verbalism
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...creative outlet is particularly important for students here, who tend to be a thinking lot. This is such a verbal environment, also, and dance has so many non-verbal aspects: space, time, rhythm, music and one's own body," Mayman added...
...Himmler hint at a "Führer order" behind the genocide. But Williams College Historian Robert G.L. Waite, author of The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler, argues that "Hitler had told his entourage to 'put as little down on paper as possible.' That an explicit and clear verbal order for genocide was given by Hitler to Himmler is testified to by many, many people who were in a position to know." Among other things, Waite adds, it seems profoundly implausible that in the absolutist Third Reich, anyone but Hitler could have exercised the authority to murder more than...
...Governors and important mayors. Watson describes himself as a "flow point" for Carter; he is responsible for routing all messages between Cabinet members and the President. Cabinet chiefs can go directly to Carter, of course. "But," says Watson, "as a practical matter, they find it helpful to pass those verbal communications on to me for transmission to him. They're very solicitous of the President's time...
...well-versed in women's literature, and well aware of the sundry contributions they've made outside the literary arts. The queen went so far as to recommend the memorization of lists of women writers, so that when called upon to defend the gender, every woman would have verbal ammunition at the tongue...
...second act the verbal fencing of the prosecutor (George Dzundza) and the defense attorney (Paul Collins) markedly steps up the dramatic tempo...