Word: verbalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Santayana's philosophy ("My system is not mine, nor new") pragmatism, naturalism, hedonism and materialism leap into the philosophical arena flashing beautifully tempered verbal weapons, gracefully swipe at each other with sardonic wit and brilliant exposition-until all fall back exhausted by their civilized exhibitionism, each one's argument largely canceled out by all the others. There can be little doubt that Santayana is speaking for himself as referee when The Stranger says: "A good life seems to me a good, and a bad life an evil; but life and death simply are neither good nor evil...
...tragically thin and banal. Like any other Christian soldiers, they used a great deal of foul language in field and camp, but very little of it got beyond a few four-letter words . . ." This complaint, in which Burges Johnson concurs, would be perfectly sound if cursing were entirely a verbal matter, but it is not. Its effect is proportionate to the kidney of the curser. The four-letter banalities that bore Mr. Mencken might suffice to turn him pale when uttered in foulness of spirit. Likewise, the most horrible oaths in the language can sound like pink tea if pronounced...
...West had gained during the eight-month interval since the last Foreign Ministers' session. That fact was infinitely more important than Molotov's verbal fishhooks-which, in their nasty way, were important...
Norman Thomas, inveterate Socialist candidate for President, distributed some verbal presents to his rivals this week...
...Russians, at any rate, would not stand for anyone lighting any verbal fires on their navels. The Soviet Union did not send delegates to London...