Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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None of these purely verbal punches was anywhere near as painful to NASA as a solidly material blow landed last week by the House Science and Astronautics Committee, which slashed $474 million from NASA's 1964 budget request of $5.7 billion. Nearly half the cut came out of the manned space flight program, which includes the lunar landing project. The committee also voted to reduce the amount of money that NASA is permitted to shift around among its various programs-plain notice that the committee plans to exercise tighter control on NASA's spending in the future...
...Force courier flights to Berlin, which they boarded under the pretext of being on Gehlen business. The three got a total of $78,000 from Moscow. For the investment, the Soviets got 15,000 microfilm photographs of West German intelligence documents, 20 spools of tape recordings, numerous verbal and radio reports, including the identity of many West German agents working behind the Iron Curtain...
...visual image to particularize the main action of the drama. At the beginning of the first hospital scene, the nurse slowly raises a fly-swatter, viciously slams it down on top of her desk, and then grins, as she wipes the swatter against the desk's legs. The verbal re-enactment of this violence becomes the driving force of the play. Each character fights another--and the only response is that which is generated by frustration and hatred...
...Irish have always cultivated the art of living, and they still have time and space for the slow perusal of race horses, the thoughtful consumption of stout, and weighty disputation in rich, foamy periods that make English English seem like verbal porridge. Ireland's traditional shanachies, its Gaelic storytellers, still spin their grave tales in the western counties, and of late have also favored Radio Eireann with their...
What finally remains-perhaps this is all Ved Mehta wanted to convey-is the topsy-turvy recollection of a dozen or so charming fellows, many of whom seem to engage in a kind of verbal nit picking, identified with Oxford and known as "linguistic philosophy." Language is the gateway to knowledge, goes the argument, and analyzing ordinary language is the best way, if not to solve, at least to understand problems. Present-day Oxford philosophers have little patience with the philosophers of the past who wrestled mightily with ethics, metaphysics and transcendental abstractions. As one thinker explained to Ved Mehta...