Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McCarthy condemns Celine for his political pamphleteering and admires the verbal and thematic craftsmanship of the novels. Yet he refuses to separate the two genres and argues clearly and ingeniously the case for a stylistic and philosocphical continuity between them. Obviously his admiration for Celine the literary craftsman predominates and allows him to take this compromise tack. And, as he himself concedes, distance from the horrors of the '40s makes it easier to examine Celine's role in them calmly...
Inevitably, in an age of global interdependence, southern Africa has emerged as a new battleground ? so far mostly verbal ? for the superpowers. All through Secretary Kissinger's mobile campaign to try to turn the momentum of race and politics in southern Africa from deepening confrontation to negotiation, the Russians were firing rhetorical broadsides from the sidelines, as if the trauma of another siege of shuttle diplomacy were almost more than they could bear. They accused the U.S. of "gimmickry" and of seeking to preserve "not only racial oppression, but the entire neocolonialist setup in Africa...
...tensions elsewhere between blacks and whites. Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, the grand old man of African liberation, has kept Kenya out of the Rhodesian confrontation, perhaps because of the frustration he experienced while trying to mediate the Angolan civil war last year. Uganda plays a noisy but purely verbal role in the southern Africa drama. Uganda's dictator Idi Amin Dada regularly threatens to dispatch a "suicide battalion" to Rhodesia or South Africa; so far, however, Amin has limited the Libyan pilots who fly his Soviet-supplied MIGs to making practice bombing runs on an island in Lake...
Instead of ordering the building evacuated, police officials, the Science Center's director, and members of the office of the general counsel decided to warn the building's occupants of the threat through verbal announcements and the posting of notices...
...purpose of this column, however, is not to list McCurdy's track accomplishments (as, what the heck, his winter and spring track squads have captured an additional 39 titles of one variety or another as well), but to present the verbal best of Bill McCurdy before Parade magazine picks up on the idea...