Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a year of verbal skirmishes and legislative battles, the anti-underpass forces look forward optimistically to the next legislative session, which begins in January. With the new support they say has been promised them, they predict success before actual construction is scheduled to begin in the spring
...Humanities we noticed that while there was primary emphasis on literature and while philosophy was also represented, the non-verbal arts figured scarcely at all....Even more significant was the emphasis on the historical and critical as opposed to the practical in our instruction in the arts. In the present General Education Program not a single course is offered that might loosely be called "creative." ...It did seem desirable to the committee that there be some representation of the practice of the arts in the Program if only in a modest, elective role, particularly in view of the availability...
...forms of instruction are taking place, but the proper relation of work in the visual and dramatic arts to the regular curriculum of the College is still only vaguely seen. We would hope that some day every undergraduate would be able to extend his experience in college from the verbal to the non-verbal arts, from appreciating to creating, in ways that maintain something of the discipline of his efforts within the departments....5JOHN H. FINLEY...
Golding saves his full verbal resources for the descriptive sequences, such as the riot when the workers discover they will have to finish the shaky tower, and the reverberating interior of the church in a storm. But here again Golding's metaphors tend to defeat his purpose. They fail in the long descriptions due to overabundance (in two pages of storm description one sees cosmic wildcats, black crows, sails, masts, stone shoulders, Satan, and clouds of devils). And often they fail to evoke anything because they are simply overblown ("the sunrays wheeled about him;" "the spark and shatter...
Heart County. Flood will win a large audience unlikely to be daunted by this tendency to lapse into an emotionally besotted verbal debauch just when a clear eye and unblurred speech are called for. Nor will Flood be damaged on the bestseller lists by its old-fashioned bawdiness...