Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place, I was thoroughly examined," he wrote, "and exonerated of any blame." Michaelides tried to discredit the Bruce family in the letter and blamed them for his own legal problems. He claimed his wife "was a criminally mistreated and unhappy person." He accused her mother of "vicious and dehumanizing" verbal assaults and said her opposition to the marriage demoralized Alexandra. He threatened: "If a more equitable approach to my case is not adopted in the near future, I have no other recourse but to use publicity by furnishing evidence to the newspapers that will destroy the false image...
...forms of journalism have proved ineffectual substitutes for newspapers. Local television stations lengthen their news broadcasts without improving them. Critics from the papers, reading their reviews on the air, soon found themselves simplifying their judgments-more fervently denouncing or plugging a book-having discovered television's inpatience with verbal nuances. Reporters and columnists working for the strike-born papers seem less impressive than usual. Can it be that the role of editors in making news judgments is more crucial than writers like to admit? Or perhaps, on interim papers, reporters are like football players in a postseason Hula Bowl...
...Stoppard loves playing around with dramatic from: the characters in his plays see themselves as figuratively or literally on a stage. Fassbinder displays a similar interest in form, and a feeling for intricate vision detail to match Stoppard's verbal relish. Match this pair with Nabokov, with his witty, self-conscious prose and playful pokes at literary form and point-of-view, and you have a threesome so finely tuned that they practically exclude the rest of us. Add Dirk Bogarde, one of Britain's most mannered, fastidious actors, and it's no surprise Despair is impenetrable...
...Germany's finest living novelist, Günter Grass has clowned his way to his nation's most serious truths. The Tin Drum and Dog Years are masterpieces of comedy and verbal invention about the culture and history that suppurated as the Third Reich. In other novels, plays and poems, he dealt with the Hitler aftermath of political divisions and haunted affluence. One mark of Grass's success is the uneasiness he caused the average German of his own World War II generation. In a tradition where philosophy and history stand on pedestals of grand abstractions, Grass...
...response to Professor Kilson's most recent set of verbal abuses against the Black undergraduate community here at Harvard, I have several things to state. Let me begin by saying that I have made no reference to statistics or records (having none immediately available, to me), and what I am about to say comes from the little pool of knowledge that I have been able to acquire in my 19 years...