Word: verbalization
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...White House tapes spun in relentless revelation, they emitted a verbal cacophony offending those stalwart upholders of the exigenicies of the nations's grammar and the subtleties of its idiomatic charm. The defenders of lucid prose shuddered at the mangled sentences--the pronouns without antecedents, the flabby modifiers, the split infinitives, the undue use of the passive voice, the malevolent creeping of coarse phraseology. A nation stood appalled that the language of Jefferson, of Webster, of Emerson, Melville, and Mencken could be contorted into such a mockery of America's verbal heritage...
...time he wrote that essay, Orwell had become a man without a country. The physical destruction that had overwhelmed Europe and the verbal destruction that so threatened the medium of his thought induced in him the feeling that he was defending humanity from the onslaughts of a civilized society gone barbarian. "Politics and the English Language" was written by a humble man who wanted to keep language itself humble and accessible. He wanted English redeemed as a tool to aid in the task of rebuilding society on the humanistic foundation the War had undermined...
...about the contact, a kind of tendency to achieve the lowest common denominator, a kind of talking about food, or talking about where you might go to get something to eat, or a grinding of a private joke down into nothingness, or little comments on little personality characteristics or verbal quirks or whatever of somebody in the group that can go on to the point where you feel that the whole group is working to protect anybody in the group from having any kind of intense contact with anybody else. These groups will sometimes last two years. You have...
...pathetic attempts at education. But the schoolchildren Fellini focuses on aren't warped or victimized by the Church--they exploit it, puncture it almost effortlessly, without retribution. Even the ordinary cruetly of children to other children (such as the very fat or the very small) never goes beyond the verbal stage. Sometimes, particularly in the opening scene of the bonfire with which the town welcomes the spring, there is a hint of menace, but these hints are always resolved into a joke. Fellini shows us only one side of the dionysiac, and only avoids getting sappy as a Christmas card...
Chile and Peru, however, could find themselves at war with each other. Both nations have been frantically modernizing their armed forces in the past year and have exchanged vitriolic verbal attacks over a border area in dispute since 1881. A Peruvian armored unit has been reported garrisoned just north of the Chilean border. All this may be nothing more than empty posturing, but observers warn that the rhetoric could create a momentum of its own, ending in hostilities...