Word: verbalization
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About 30 percent of the U.S. rowers participated, claiming afterward that it really helped, said Kabat-Zinn. After this verbal encouragement, he and Beall tried this fall to prove scientifically that meditation increases the synchronic and speed of a boat, with a controlled test on the sophomores of the team...
...conceived by Beckett, Endgame is a verbal battle between men on the verge of extinction. His stage directions call for a bare interior, grey light, and two small windows. The only furniture is an armchair and two garbage cans. In the armchair sits the blind Hamm who spends all his time lording over his adopted son Clov, who proves mysteriously, incapable of disobedience to Hamm's tyrannical dictates. Hamm's ancient and dying parents, Nag and Nell, dwell in the garbage cans...
...Rastafarian king on his throne, lacks the self-consciousness befitting lines like, "An aside, Ape! Did you never hear an aside." Even the phrasing of that line suggests a more cultivated mind, acutely aware of his dramatic presence. Although Beckett's characters are painfully aware of their calculated, verbal chess match, Akalaitis' flail at each other in fits of rage. A more cold-blooded conversation would make Hamm's torture of Clov seem more horrifyingly vicious and his occasional displays of genuine emotion more shockingly pathetic. While the characters should be raw, they need not be barbaric. They need...
...verbal agreement with Eckersley calls for annual payments of about $850,000 a year, the Chicago Tribune reported in Wednesday's editions. It leaves the Cubs negotiating with three other free agents starters Rick Sutcliffe and Steve Trout and reliever Tim Stoddard
Most of his quandaries arise from Latin American writers' love of verbal play. In A Manual for Manuel, Cortazar characterizes different types of secret policemen in a string of richly suggestive alliterative words, hormigon, hormigucho, etc. In English, a literal translation (big ant, big clumsy ant) would have been ungainly. Rabassa's solution: dominant, sycophant, miscreant...