Word: verbally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your advocacy of "police calm" in the face of "verbal provocation," "filthy abuse," and "language, however violent" is irresponsible and ridiculous. To justify such acts in the name of the First Amendment is just absurd. Surely you must know that the law prohibits the use of obscene language in public places, disorderly conduct, violent language, and interfering with a police officer in the exercise of his duty. You might as well defend the shouting of "Fire!" in a crowded theater...
Gorey: Humphrey seems psychologically incapable of being on time. The reason is talk-whether to a group, a person, even a dog. He can't leave until he has indulged in verbal overkill...
Squeezed Syllables. Sinfonia, a 28-minute work for full orchestra and eight "amplified" singers, is pure surrealism, voiced in sound. The words of its text are employed as much for their acoustic qualities as for their semantic meaning. The result is a kind of anti-opera in which verbal and musical ideas constantly dissolve into one another, yet are finally apotheosized into a grand, compelling musical sonorama...
...Goldie Hawn, 22, a former chorus girl from Tacoma Park, Md., is the resident dumdum who takes all the verbal pratfalls. In the thick of quick exchanges, she will giggle, shake her haystack pile of blonde hair and say in a little meowing voice: "I forgot the question." At first, her fluffs were a case of misreading the cue cards. Now they are part of the act, as when she bites her lip and chirps: "I don't like Viet Cong because in the movie he nearly wrecked the Empire State Building...
City Councillor Al Vellucci, pain in the ass of the Harvard Corporation and joy in the hearts of his East Cambridge constituents, just added one more insult to the fourteen years of verbal injury he has inflicted on the University's self-promoted image...