Word: verbalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...title stands for logical positivists, linguistic philosophers and their penchant for verbal gymnastics-of which the play itself is perhaps too full. The time is the near future. A rationalist-oriented "Radical Liberal Party" has taken over England and elevated the ex-Minister of Agriculture to the post of Archbishop of Canterbury. In full sight of millions of televiewers, one British astronaut has clobbered another into the moon dust (there is too little fuel for both of them to return to earth...
...saying hello. "What are you running here, a desert?" is a necessary preamble to ordering drinks. Even the boozehound on doubles has a wretched little snapper handy: "Two Scotch on the rocks, put them in the same glass, will you?" The irony is that Dillon is painting a verbal desert inhabited by people who live off words. His achievement, modest but real, is that he manages to populate the place with recognizable, sympathetic forms of life...
...course, President Nixon and Vice President Agnew have made their own special contribution to the lexicon of excess. Those who profess deep social feelings, as George McGovern surely does, seek to authenticate them with verbal ultimates. But the process wrings out our political vocabularies, corrupts them, drains them of meaning...
...months -but to no avail. They lost in the finals to the defending champion Highland Avenue Aces of Wilmette, 111., who had coolly scouted out the weak spots in the Californians' game. During the match, the winners destroyed Fuchsia's confidence with a steady stream of verbal taunts. The Aces' reward: the Julius T. Nachazel Memorial Trophy, made from a couple of tin cans and some cut-glass jewels and named after a retired Michigan Tech professor whose name had appealed to the tournament's director, Jumbo Jim Davis...
Somewhere underneath this level come the literary middlemen, storytellers who can really sell a joke or raise your hackles with suspense. Though their ideas be meagre and their verbal powers limited, they often pack the widest popular punch, and persuasively reflect the pervasive attitudes...