Word: verbalization
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...Libraries, the Friends of the Monroe County Library, and the Miami Herald decided to hold one of their book-and-author events in Key West. The local luminaries gladly volunteered to divulge an opinion or two. The quiet little chat over coffee cups that was planned turned into a verbal extravaganza after a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., travel agency put together a package tour. "It ended up an incredible thing," says Travel Agent Judy Twyford. "People don't want to just sit by the pool any more, they want to get together and talk. This is one of the best...
...more in purchasing power than if tax and inflation rates were still at the 1980 levels." Mindful of the fairness issue, he wrote into his text the words, "progress helps everyone." But he read the line as "Congress helps everyone," one of an unusual number of verbal flubs. Reagan recovered nimbly from this one. He corrected himself, then said benignly, "Congress does too," to laughter and applause...
...UNESCO's pronouncements "incompetent" because they are hostile to the West? And wouldn't truly a unique "Western case" be inherently biased? On the same New York Times opinion page a few days later in December, William Safire, who usually is known for a bit more intellectual and verbal adoptness, offers that UNESCO is a "three star Paris restaurant masquerading as an international organization." And, finally, a Washington Post editorial: UNESCO "got hijacked by a Third World Communist collective seemingly interested less in running good programs than in engaging in ideological disputation and living the high life...
...misgivings over the congressionally mandated requirement that nuclear material not be reprocessed or transferred without U.S. approval. Prospects are slim that a compromise agreement can be worked out in time for Reagan's scheduled visit to Peking in April. Nonetheless. Administration officials were cheered by Zhao's verbal assurances that China intends to abide by the 1968 nuclear nonproliferation treaty, which it has refused to sign...
Once the bourgeoisie had decided not to talk about what it did, it created a new symbolic language, both verbal and nonverbal, to convey information. Middle-class women no longer got pregnant, for example; they became enceinte, or were "in an interesting condition." Painters and sculptors thrilled staid merchants with luscious nudes fig-leafed with titles like Venus Now Wakes. Manet's Olympia shocked the salon of 1865 not because she was naked but because she looked back at the viewer with the defiant eyes of a thoroughly contemporary Parisian courtesan. On second thought, said Freud...