Word: verbalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consciousness that killed the efforts of the Living Theater. The formula is simple: instead of provoking the members of the audience into life with insults and forced participation, you entertain them and make them forget about themselves. As the seven actors move through a potpourri of skits, dance and verbal play, their high spirits are so infecting that by the end of the show most of the audience is up on the stage dancing with the cast without being conscious of how they got there...
...French writer who, under the pseudonym of Vercors, founded Editions de Minuit, a French underground press, during World War II and briefly followed the French Communist Party line. On the whole, Vercors seems to distrust the rebellious spirits he has known-especially those whose revolt was mainly verbal. The hero of his sixth novel is a meticulous and withering portrait of what he takes to be the type...
...feel that the absence of any presidential pressure makes it difficult for them to hold down unreasonable demands from the rank and file. The growing fear is that in the absence of an even relatively mild "incomes policy" (for example, nonmandatory wage and price guidelines and at least strong verbal attacks by the President against excessive increases), there will be pressure for harsher measures. These might include a temporary wage freeze or even outright controls...
...China's leaders respect Kissinger. They know him through their own intelligence and through his writing. Discussing him with an old friend and close comrade-in-politics of Premier Chou one evening in Peking, I was struck by his frank delight at the prospect of crossing verbal swords with such a worthy adversary. "Kissinger?" he said. "There is a man who knows the language of both worlds-his own and ours. With him, it should be possible to talk...
...After Greece was placed under military dictatorship in 1967, the U.S. stopped delivery of all heavy military equipment, such as tanks and field guns. Believing that it had received verbal assurances that the colonels in charge would restore some of the nation's freedoms, however, the Nixon Administration last September formally lifted the embargo on heavy arms and asked Congress this year for nearly $118 million in new aid. Though it was still not happy with the junta's internal policies, Greece remained vital to NATO's southern flank and to the Sixth Fleet, newly challenged...