Word: verbalization
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...March, Watson temporarily decided to retain Munro as coach, but Thomas has the verbal backing of all but one member of last year's varsity squad...
...standards have already changed; maybe people read about sadism because they are already sadistic. Political Scientist Wilson Carey McWilliams argues this point well: "Degeneracy becomes socially visible, emerging from underground, only when it has reason to expect a welcome. Certainly this is the case in relation to sexuality. Our verbal sexual morals had become nothing more than cant some time ago. Worse, they were a form of hypocrisy which discouraged respect...
...comedies of Milos Forman, notably Loves of a Blonde and The Firemen's Ball, have commonly been called humanistic, possibly because they refuse to be comfortably confined in any other genre. Their humor is neither primarily verbal nor visual; Forman's particular skill is ingenious observation, creating comedy from character and rigorously familiar situations. But his work also contains a trace of archness, a current of condescension. In none of his films has that tendency been more evident than in his latest, Taking...
Professor Kennan should turn at random to the annual debates in the General Assembly of the United Natiohs. These documents are enlightening for their records of verbal exorcism of apartheid by friend and foe alike. Consider, for instance, the session of Autumn 1963 in which the South African system was seen by the United States Government as 'toxic,' by the Soviet Union as 'shameful,' by England as 'abhorrent,' by Belgium as 'thoroughly repugnant,' by India as 'hateful,' by Guinea as 'inhuman,' by Bolivia as 'the negation of all social purpose,' by Japan as 'fundamentally immoral,' by Canada as 'degrading...
...guerrilla movements in Southern Africa. It does not, therefore, come as a surprise that South African officials hailed Nixon's speech as exhibiting a deeper, more pragmatic, understanding of the complexities of the situation than any other American President. south African thinking on the relationship between verbal disapprobation and physical interference is well-revealed in a pronouncement of former Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd. When, in the Session of 1966, the General Assembly decided that South Africa's right to South-West Africa derived exclusively from the mandate conferred on it by the League of Nations, that that mandate has been...