Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sufficient handbills and evidence of verbal statements equating the SDS and WSA have been presented to this office to warrant the application to WSA of the sanction of nonrecognition applicable...
...asserts his own righteousness. He is, however, madly in love with Celimene, an incorrigably trivial coquette who likes to play her string of courtier suitors off against each other by deceiving each one into thinking that he is her true love. The plot thickens into a series of brilliant verbal battles and intrigues between the suitors and between Celimene and her lady rivals. She is finally exposed, and the courtiers, including Alceste, go their own way and leave her to probably only a moment's regreat of the whole preceeding...
...point), the writer grows ideas as well as wit. Aristophanes punned, with scatological exuberance, and so did Homer and Cicero. What was occasional in the classicists was fecund nature to Shakespeare. Because he had to play to the galleries, his plays were par for the coarse, brimming with such verbal pratfalls as "Discharge yourself of our company, Pistol." But Shakespeare could also buff the pun until it shone like art. Says the bleeding Mercutio: "Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man." "You see how this world goes," Lear says to the blind Gloucester...
...fluent bilingual flippancy: "lox vobiscum," "the Saucier's Apprentice," and the neo-Joycean "Anna Trivia Pluralized." The pun makes its happiest regular appearance in the work of Novelist Peter De Vries, who writes stories about compulsive punners. "I can't stop," he claims. "I even dream verbal puns. Like the one in which a female deer was chasing a male deer. I woke up and realized it was a doe trying to make a fast buck...
...most familiar face, however, is Penn's number one. Palmer Page, the defending intercollegiate champion. Page and Peter Briggs had a tense battle last year, including verbal clashes, and more than just a team point will be at stake...