Word: verbalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under all of that basaltic opacity and frentic word-accumulation something, presumably, is being expressed. The obscurity of the diction (an alembic is anything which distills or refines) and the ambiguity of the description reduce the poem to a mere order of words unified by consonant repetition and inarticulate verbal echoes...
...muffle the long-running domestic debate and even diminish the growing disconnection between those who think it a just and justifiable war and those who have argued that it should be ended at almost any price. In the Senate, Kentucky Republican Thruston Morton attacked both groups for indulging in "verbal overkill" in the debate, warning that "loose talk on the one hand, and deplorable, even illegal behavior on the other, both tend to heighten current misunderstanding and misapprehension." If the war's critics have been less vociferous in recent months, he implied, it is not because they are being...
...make and expect that the white press will report. First is an attack on another black man calling him an Uncle Tom [a charge McKissick himself has made once or twice] or a fanatic or a black nationalist. The second is a statement that sounds radical, violent, extreme-the verbal equivalent of a riot-Watts put into words...
...Springs. The landmarks in modern literature, Steiner says, are works that have pushed language over the precipice of its past-Joyce's Ulysses, the poetry of Mallarmé and Rilke. Painting, too, is language, but the modern practitioners are in total rebellion against the "verbal" or meaningful in art. Franz Kline's Chief is a tornado of paint, and nothing can be said about it that is "pertinent to the habits of linguistic sense." Contemporary music also flies from exterior meanings. Language today can deal only with the surfaces of experience. "The rest, and it is presumably...
...Countess, his first film in over ten years, marks Chaplin's return to a kind of comedy he hadn't created since Modern Times. In many respects the comedy is similar to that of the earlier films. Though American comedy since Lubitsch and Wilder has tended increasingly toward the verbal, Chaplin still largely ignores the potential of comic dialogue, emphasizing the visual jokes instead...