Word: verbalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-five seconds of radio silence mushroomed last week into a pressagent's dream. Acid-tongued Fred Allen started it on Sunday night with a verbal swat at NBC's executives: "There is a little man in the company we work for. He is a vice president in charge of program ends. . . ." After the first eleven words, NBC huffily...
...equilibrated. Copland's is the least ambitious expressively of the three pieces. It is modest and thin of substance. Hindemith's is more pretentious and more complex but not a whit more expressive. Malipicro's is the richest of them, matches most nearly with music the grandeur of its verbal text. It might seem even more adequately Virgilian than it does if, orchestral instruments were to be substituted in the accompaniment for the pipe-organ, a graceless and lumbering instrument...
...Business, liberal organizations, and reactionary U. S. domestic and foreign policy all came in for a verbal barrage last night in Emerson D when Stanley Gates, legislative chairman and National Veterans' Director of the Communist Party, U. S. A., elaborated on his party's positions before the John Reed Society...
...made it a high misdemeanor for a U.S. citizen, without permission from the Government, to carry on any "verbal or written correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with an intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the Government of the United States. . . ." The penalty: not more than $5,000 in fines and imprisonment for not more than three years...
When the Communist Daily Worker faced suspension, the Times lent it 16 tons of paper. The Worker ran a thank-you note, but some of the Times's readers took it to task. The Times added comfortably: "We think democracy . . . strong enough to withstand any verbal blows ... by the Daily Worker, and we think that proof of this strength can best be provided by permitting [it] to keep on talking...