Word: verbalization
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...language is headed toward a state of corrupt, Orwellian gibberish These writers have found a responsive audience; people obsessed with good English almost enjoy the feeling that they belong to an embattled cult. NBC Commentator Edwin Newman's Strictly Speaking, a catalogue of ugly Americanisms and verbal atrocities, was 26 weeks on the bestseller lists. A Pulitzer prizewinning writer, Jean Stafford, has been conducting a crusade of sorts against what she sees as the encroaching barbarism of inexact and fraudulent language...
...White House, the Congress, state capitals and city halls. In more ways than one, it has a "Calvinistic" ring. Many of the most enthusiastic practitioners of the new parsimony are what we-used to call liberals. California's Governor Jerry Brown is, like Coolidge, applauded for his verbal brevity and his fiscal austerity; Brown deprived state employees of their government-issue briefcases (to cut both expenses and paperwork) and suggested that the University of California administrators take pay cuts. Illinois' Governor Dan Walker notes with pride that he has trimmed the state payroll...
...when they start making their first twenty or thirty thousand, people stop laughing at them. Unless, of course they can capitalize on their embarrassment and go professional. Since Charlie Chaplin turned the loser into a comic classic, some of the most successful comedians hit the bigtime on verbal slapstick. You laugh at Rodney Dangerfield (if you do) because he "don't get no respect." And you chuckle at Woody Allen because he's a Jewish...
...important shift in the post-Viet Nam world. In Southeast Asia, an altered tripolar balance is forming. The U.S. clearly wants to maintain a strong presence in the Pacific. China will try to strengthen its position by creating diplomatic ties with the ASEAN countries, while paradoxically keeping up its verbal support for the leftist insurrections that have survived for decades in the region's remoter areas. Moscow, too, already has normal relations with most of Southeast Asia's countries and a small but growing trade with some; despite Peking's efforts to outflank it in Southeast Asia...
...that psychiatrists are aggressive by nature. Far from it. Maryland's Madden notes that most of the analysts studied seemed "attracted to psychiatry by its contemplative nature and its use of verbal skills rather than any kind of physical management." Madden believes that psychiatrists as a breed are frequently so put off by violence that they repress awareness...