Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plight is best embodied by the traditional symbol for alchemy--a snake biting its own tail. As he writhes, he emerges as an attractive character. Wincing at his awkwardness and glorying in his rare verbal victories become comfortable...
Throughout the week the U.S. continued its verbal offensive, launched last month, to bring down oil prices, or at least keep them from going any higher. At the IMF meeting, the Americans concentrated on the need for lower energy costs rather than new international lending institutions to ease the balance of payments problems of petroleum-importing states...
...side stood the U.S., determined to drive down the high price of oil; on the other was OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries),* equally dedicated to maintaining its enormously profitable marketing policies, which have quadrupled the cost of oil in the past year. So far, nothing more lethal than verbal salvos has been fired. Looming in the distance, however, are more dangerous weapons: political and economic pressures and possibly-as a desperate last resort -military intervention...
...tried to find courses that promise academic pugilism. I looked for that idealized seminar room infused by the hovering spirit of the Marquis of Queensbury. In this age of laxness, I reasoned, men confront law school rather than German troops at the Marne--we must endeavor to substitute verbal missiles for military ones, and to replace infantry swords with forensic ones...
...never get off the ground. Some of the minor characters are better drawn, such as Carr's butler, who oversees Carr's non-handling of his diplomatic duties, a closet communist who's quite good at putting his master in his place. He provides the insubstantial link between the verbal minuetting of the English-dadaist group and the heavy, teutonic oratory Stoppard puts in the mouths of Lenin and his sentimental wife, Krupskaya. The one diplomatic assignment Carr receives, which he first discovers once Lenin's train is safely on its way to the Finland Station, is to make sure...