Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...notions of a good life. It is odd that both of these very American writers should go into such an un-American swivet as to who sits below whose salt. Yet Fitzgerald, in his delighted fellow-travels with the rich, usually managed to weave a kind of verbal magic that seems today beyond O'Hara's means. In fact, O'Hara's entire account of the "aristocratic" Joe Chapin and his existence at No. 10 North Frederick is a remorselessly endless annotation of an epitaph to that depressing character called Clive...
Papa was no king of the wild frontier, but for Utah Territory of the 1880s he was quick on the verbal draw. Mama was going on 18, with braided blond pigtails, when he fired these lines at her: "I love you, Tena Nielsen. I love you with the intensity of the desert sun. I love you with the sweep and grandeur of the mountain peaks. I love you with the humility of a peasant for a princess . . . Don't be afraid of the wrath of your people. My love for you will shield and protect you." Papa...
...Must Stop Scrawling." Himself the monitor of a philosophic flux-materialism, rationalism, idealism, skepticism-Santayana reveals in the letters not the direction but the drive behind his thinking. To him, philosophy seems to have been a kind of verbal finger painting. As the nuns of the Little Company of Mary padded about him during the last decade of his life, he drew an appealing sketch of old age which also sums up much of his carefully Epicurean philosophy: "The charm I find in old age-for I was never happier than I am now-comes of having learned to live...
...airliners. It was the first deal to buy U.S. commercial jets. Total price: $269 million, the biggest in airline history. The deal is certain to be followed by plane purchase orders from other carriers. National Airlines is expected to sign for six DC-8s on which it took a verbal option last August. Other shoppers include United, American, Eastern, Air France, KLM and Panagra...
...specialist in psychosomatic medicine, attempted a much-debated remedy: medical hypnosis. With several attendant physicians, Gwartney sat by the girl's bed and explained what he intended to do, without mentioning the term hypnotism. Said he, in a report on the case last week: "It was all verbal suggestion. I told her she wanted to get over her cough, and that if she cooperated we could help her." Finally, he told the girl that by the time he had counted ten, her eyes would close. On the signal, she closed her eyes but remained conscious...