Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Found-Land, Stoppard has managed to fill out an evening of theater, even to make it entertaining. But there's so much more to expect from the author of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. It's a bit sad to see a man who challenged Shakespeare to verbal duels wasting his time pulling blue panties out of his characters' pockets...
Norman Podhoretz calls it, with pardonable license, the "terror." No guillotine was set up in Greenwich Village, literary heads did not roll, but there were plenty of verbal executions in the late 1960s and early '70s when radical thought held sway in New York City and many other parts of the country as well. As the editor of Commentary and a leader of centrist opinion, Podhoretz was a prime target of the Manhattan Jacobins. In a book recapturing the impassioned polemics of the era in sometimes powerful and sometimes sluggish prose, he tells how he survived the literary pummeling...
...David Frost vs. Henry Kissinger," said William Small, president of NBC News. "It was supposed to be an interview with Henry Kissinger." Indeed, the unedited transcript reveals that the Interviewer talked more than the interviewee, always a bad sign. But Frost had felt all along that this verbal tactic would be essential. Said he: "To set up a detailed discussion of a subject like Cambodia, you have to start with a long question and then come back with sustained follow...
...real promise Barth holds for the patient reader is not this lie about meaningful associations but the endless cleverness he applies to the stuff of language, his individual words and sentences. At times this connoisseur of puns and multiple entendres can be seen doing proud headstands behind his latest verbal tricks. Without straining too hard or setting his sights on the outrageous, he usually finds just the odd phrasing, the curious reference to spark laughter. He describes Reg Prinz, a movie director filming one of Barth's novels during Letters...
...Portillo pointedly reminded Carter of the new facts of hemisphere life when the President visited Mexico City in February, tongue-lashing his guest for treating Mexico with "a mixture of interests, disdain and fear." Caught off guard by that undiplomatic verbal assault, Carter responded with one of the more unfortunate utterings of his presidency, a rambling ac count of how, on a previous visit, he had been afflicted by "Montezuma's revenge...