Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Washington announced last November that it would no longer oppose seating Peking in the United Nations so long as Taiwan retained its seat as well. Nixon, in his "State of the World" message, went out of his way to make a deep verbal bow to the "750 million talented and energetic" citizens of the "People's Republic of China." Last week the State Department ended the restrictions that have effectively prevented travel to China by U.S. citizens for 20 years. (The gesture is mostly symbolic at present because Peking has shown no willingness to issue visas to U.S. travelers...
Gawky Swan. In Act I a sisterhood of suffering assembles, and more verbal feline ferocity has not gone zinging across a Broadway stage since Clare Boothe Luce wrote The Women. Three divorcees have arranged for their ex-husbands to take the children for an outing in honor of the day. Louise (Brenda Vaccaro) is an earthy exactress with a tongue like a wood file. Marian (Marian Seldes) is a gawky swan of a woman who can deliver lines with the edgily lethal politesse of a Boston blueblood. Estelle (Jennifer Salt) is the quintessential waif, an orphan who married an orphan...
...ground invasion of southern Laos ended yesterday, but in Washington the verbal struggle to transform the abortive Laos incursion into some kind of victory continues unabated...
...most high school graduates could answer "four" in a flash, it was not so easy for 13 black laborers in North Carolina who wanted the Duke Power Co. to promote them to coal handlers. In fact, the company insisted that they take a general intelligence test full of verbal and mathematical puzzles. The men scored low and remained where they were...
...sitting around in San Francisco with "nothin' to do" when a candy-striped package appears in his room. Unwrapped, it becomes a tollbooth; when he drives his kiddie car through it, he becomes part of a cartoon interpretation of C.P. Snow's Two Cultures. Head of the Verbal World is King Azaz; his dreaded brother and rival, the Mathemagician, is "Ruler of Numbers." A series of adventures eventually earns Milo the role of peacemaker: he rescues the maidens Rhyme and Reason from a castle prison, thereby eliminating the sibling rivalry...