Word: verbalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taken over McCall's-was negotiating with Boise Cascade to sell both the profitable Review and the money-losing McCall trade-book operation to Boise's publishing subsidiary, Communications/ Research/Machines Inc. CRM puts out the successful Psychology Today and Intellectual Digest. Cousins claimed he had a verbal repurchase agreement with Simon himself. But nothing was on paper, and both the company and Simon denied that there was any agreement...
...forced to fill news columns with detailed stories on the progress of court action and public debate. Three times on its editorial page the paper insisted that it had seen its duty and done it. Byliners James Reston, Tom Wicker and Max Frankel contributed eight columns to the verbal defense fund (see THE NATION). To its credit, the Times turned over its Op-Ed page to notable personalities who were invited to argue both sides of the question. More than a dozen dissertations were printed, and each side got fair play. Among those critical of the Times were Senator Barry...
...second or so, but then allowed that, yes, he had given serious thought to homicide "on at least four or five occasions." Prime object of his lethal impulse was British Critic Kenneth Tynan, whom Capote thought "despicable in every conceivable way," a judgment no doubt derived from a verbal bout over the merits of In Cold Blood. Pressed farther by the fascinated Frost, Capote explained, "Most people commit suicide because they can't kill the people who are tormenting them. Instead of bumping them off, they bump themselves off. Well, I'm not like that...
...read his latest book. His four writers have been working on Cavett's standard six-minute opening comedy monologue; in midafternoon, Cavett edits their material and types notes for cue cards. These monologues are frequently less than successful, since the best of Cavett's humor is sparked by verbal confrontation with his guests. Taping before an audience begins at 6 o'clock, but the show does not go on the air until 11:30 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time (10:30 Central). By then, Cavett's limousine has long since deposited him at home, where he can relax and watch...
...after metric foot, only to snap to an end with an outrageously contrived rhyme that usually manages to contain a real groaner of a pun. When Ogden Nash died of heart failure last week at 68 in Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, he left an affectionate and inventive verbal legacy. Said his friend and editor Ned Bradford of Little, Brown: "He reflected all the joys and vexations of American life in those resigned but cheerful verses...