Word: verbalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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PHILADELPHIA--President Roosevelt tonight restated his promise to keep America out of foreign wars and charged his Republican opponents with using propaganda technique of the dictators in a verbal blitzkrieg of deliberate mis-statements...
...taken a noticeable trend away from the five-dollar words of high argument and seemed to be heading toward the two-cent simplicities of Zowie! and Wham! (TIME, Oct. 14). For the first time, a public debater made a direct hit on Wendell Willkie, with a tomato. Many a verbal tomato, many an ancient egg, whizzed through...
Poetry and politics do not seem like strangers to each other in Wheelwright's book, because its author had no doubt whatever that political freedom and verbal truth are the interrelated objectives of every wide-awake, decent man on earth. Political Self-Portrait is a kind of rebel's hornbook, full of references to the doctrines and deeds of those who Wheelwright felt have most signally helped-and hindered-truth-telling and liberty. On the angels' side, among others, are Prometheus, Jesus Christ, and the old Rev. John. On the other side may be found Cain, Stalin...
...posthumous novels. The others are props and foils, caught up and jolted into a semblance of animation by the Wolfian earthquake. Thomas Wolfe spent his short life trying to experience everything in the world with all five senses at once, and to communicate the experience in a series of verbal landslides. Sometimes they piled up in masses of magnificent rhetoric: "And we? Made of our father's earth, blood of his blood, bone of his bone, flesh of his flesh-born like our father here to live and strive, here to win through or be defeated-here, like...
Hostess Chase's scripts are full of chitsy-chatsy on what the smart little child will wear, how to get along as a weekend guest, the importance of wearing hats that please men. Included in the verbal menu is a resume of Miss Chase's gay activities since she was last on the air-luncheon with Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolf), cocktails with Condé Nast, dinner with the Grand Duchess Marie...