Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Writing with these verbal properties in mind involves a form of communication that goes beyond language. Words can reveal knowledge of bury it inside their physical structure. They can "talk" to you or dangle silently but visibly on the page. Often someone will discuss a text by saying "this is just literature" when their implication is "you speak to say nothing...
...purposes at this stage, any target is a good one. His verbal hooks and jabs are aimed, above all, to hype the gate. Locally there may be no need. Filipinos are such boxing fanatics that when former World Junior Lightweight Champion Gabriel ("Flash") Elorde goes shopping with his wife, he brings along his gloves to oblige admirers who want to show their stuff. There probably will be few empty seats at the coliseum in nearby Quezon City when Frazier and Ali square off Oct. 1 (Sept. 30 in the U.S., which is on the other side of the international date...
...Yeats to Dylan Thomas, writers like Shaw, collectors like the flustered and bigoted American John Quinn-with a picaresque dash which, in the celebrity portraiture of his later years, turned into a routine of dispiriting feebleness. Like John at his zenith, Holroyd creates a suite of sardonic and sympathetic verbal portraits. Between the figures flow the ingredients of that most difficult of works-the biography of a grandiose failure...
...candidate. If they're over 700, then the SATs are pretty important for a candidate; they're probably his primary asset, though as Reardon says, only about 10 per cent are admitted as a straight "scholar group." The median SAT scores for the last class was 674 verbal and 713 math. For scores below that, however, a candidate must have something else going for him--maybe he's a musician, or an athlete or has a "one" personality...
...question will always remain how much his political buoyancy affected his music. As his contemporary Vladimir Nabokov pointed out, it is a wretched thing for an artist to leave his homeland and his native sounds, whether musical or verbal. Perhaps because Shostakovich had to bend his inspiration to the will of the state, the quality of his work varies widely. There are, however, his passages of genuine beauty, crisp wit and sheer energy of genius. For those, it is impossible to name a successor...