Word: verbalism
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...days in Zurich. The play, but especially this scene, showcases the talents of John Wood, who is superb in the role of Henry Carr. Wood's opening monologue is a stream of one-liners, epigrams, digressions-the saving grace of senile reminisces, he assures us-and judgements-a verbal torrent...
...physically and psychologically healthier when there are fewer of them in a family-and when they are wanted. The University of Michigan's Robert Zajonc, a psychologist who studies educational trends closely, already notes a marked rise in the IQs of the ZPGeneration now in primary school. Verbal and linguistic skills, he finds, increase in inverse proportion to the size of the family; smaller families, as he puts it, are "more adult-oriented than sibling-oriented." Education may revert in part from classroom to living room. Children may again receive wisdom from respected, caring elders...
...nature of the Bible. His most controversial material, however, is left for Volume III. In this section Henry will defend the belief that the Bible was totally error-proof ("inerrant") when it was originally written, and that later copies and translations "convey the truth of revelation in reliable verbal form...
...volume, priced at a modest $60, contains more than 13,000 new and often exotic words, or new meanings for old words, along with some 125,000 quotations that illustrate their origins* and usage. Browsing through its 1,282 pages is like rummaging through a kind of verbal attic of folkways and attitudes that have shaped the language over the past half-century. The editors have placed their imprimatur on "McCarthyism," "McLuhanism," "Maoism" and "Naderism." They have acknowledged a menagerie of latter-day elves and monsters, from "Hobbits" (Novelist J.R.R. Tolkien's small, furry earth dwellers) to "Nessie...
...since 1965, when Abel defeated David McDonald by a gossamer 10,000 votes, has the contest for the 1.4 million-man union's top job been so embittered. Since last fall, when Sadlowski announced his candidacy (TIME, Sept. 20), both sides have traded vicious verbal blows, and sometimes physical ones: a Sadlowski volunteer was shot through the neck while handing out leaflets in Houston. The battle has spilled over into the courts. Three weeks ago, McBride filed a suit charging that Sadlowski had received illegal campaign contributions from employers in other industries; last week Sadlowski countered by filing...