Word: verbalizations
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...hollers, all wonderfully controlled, disciplined by inspired musicianship, and harnessed to ingenious subtleties of harmony, dynamics and rhythm... It is either the singing of a man whose vocabulary is inadequate to express what is in his heart and mind or of one whose feelings are too intense for satisfactory verbal or conventionally melodic articulation. He can?t tell it to you. He can?t even sing it to you. He has to cry out to you, or shout to you, in tones eloquent of despair - or exaltation. The voice alone, with little assistance from the text or the notated music...
...sole goal and purpose of the magazine—to parade Harvard’s sexuality around,” Cieplak-von Baldegg, also editor-in-chief of the magazine, said of the original proposal for the publication. “The real purpose was to have a verbal discussion of sex, because basically any intelligent discussion about it is really lacking from campus...
...magazines schooled him in another creative outlet, too. Updike came of age during the heyday of so-called “light verse”—brief rhymes based on word play—and as his vocabulary matured the genre afforded him a crack at verbal virtuosity...
Even without Harvard examples of actual arrest or physical abuse, however, verbal abuse due to bathroom confusion certainly takes place on this campus, and has happened to me personally several times, at least once in interactions with professional proctors during exam period. For the record, I do not identify as a transgendered individual, but I am a somewhat androgynous-looking (both by choice and by genetics) woman who often has trouble ‘passing’ as a member of my own gender. I certainly would not feel more comfortable entering a men’s restroom, although...
...approached on exit, shrug and explain that he/she really had to go; I have done it in gas stations, and really nobody cares. But a trans individual (or even a queer individual such as myself) trying to enter a public, multiple-occupancy restroom faces the threat of verbal and physical abuse, angry questions, surprised screams and even arrest or other police involvement. This clearly goes beyond inconvenience...