Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...honor, and courage still mean as much as they did in the days of the early Christians. But the U.S., because of indecisive, vacillating leadership, is being pictured as a country totally lacking these virtues. We have big talk delivered in ethereal prose by a President with a decided verbal aptitude. He knows all about the Madison Avenue image and the subliminal lure of clever words, but he doesn't know a damn thing about the yearnings of millions of Americans. Once again the enemy has gone too far-they have thrown down the gauntlet. The world waits...
...before Passman's subcommittee. Republican Dwight Eisenhower invited Passman to the White House. Ike meant to use all his great persuasiveness on Passman. But he never got a chance. No sooner had Passman entered the President's office than he launched into a long recitation, flung verbal graphs around the room, polka-dotted the President with decimal points, cascaded the room with statistics. When Passman finally left, the President turned to an aide. "Remind me," he groaned, "never to invite that fellow down here again...
...interposition or nullification hasn't got a legal leg to stand on nowadays, it still has the political juice in the South," he added. The doctrine was taken up again by Southern governors in 1956 in a verbal protest against the Court's desegregation decision. Gov. Orville Faubus of Arkansas used "interposition" the following year, and now Barnett "is taking a leaf out of Faubus' book," he said...
Limiting Speeches. The papal Motu Proprio predictably decreed that all public sessions will take place in St. Peter's, where bleachers are now being built in the nave, and that the official language of the council would be Latin (translators will be on hand to help prelates through verbal thickets). Other procedural decisions: Council members will be forbidden to leave Rome without written permission from the presidential council. Clerics who wish to speak on the floor will present written requests to the presiding cardinal, then wait their turn. "Church fathers," the booklet noted, "are requested to limit their speeches...
...Richardson and Sir John Gielgud, who will also direct. Sidney Kingsley's first play in eight years is called Night Life (Oct. 23). It takes place in a key club, has 28 people onstage throughout, and is written in what Kingsley calls "a free and new use of verbal imagery and a new use of the stream-of-consciousness technique...