Word: verbalizations
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...belong to something more than yourselves," the coach reminds his boys. So after bitter verbal exchanges he and his boys decide to stick together, not so much for old time's sake as for security in the here and now. They know that the past is dead, but they realize that their corpse of a memory is the best thing they have. That one moment of high school glory was the highpoint of the men's lives. The crowds cheered at them then, made them heroes. Nothing in later life has ever matched that thrill or yielded those honors...
...press-often accused of nitpicking and verbal overkill-confronted a remarkable opportunity, a story in which verbal overkill was virtually impossible. The transcripts of the presidential conversations of Watergate, released by the White House around 2:30 p.m. last Tuesday, were almost half as long as War and Peace. The more of this mass of material that could be got to the public, the fairer and more useful the press coverage would be, and the better prepared the nation would be to judge Richard M. Nixon...
British Playwright Tom Stoppard chain-smokes ideas like cigarettes and emits the smoke with puffs of mirth. The latest display of his intellectual curiosity, verbal agility and quirky sense of humor is Jumpers (TIME, March 11), a comedy currently on view at Manhattan's Billy Rose Theater. Jumpers is a philosophical roller coaster careering dizzyingly along the parallel tracks of wit and logic over such subjects as the existence or nonexistence of God, the nature of good and evil, and the interdependence of ethics and metaphysics...
...Verbal Notes. Hartman uses a pair of tape recorders for much of his studying, taping lectures on one and dictating notes to himself on the other. "It is quicker and easier to learn from tape than to rely on Braille," he explains. His only Braille texts are a medical dictionary and a notebook of emergency procedures. He has learned anatomy by touch, sticking his hands into cadavers to learn the shape, location and feel of the body's organs. To master histology he listens to classmates' descriptions of cells seen through a microscope...
...much bad-mouthing must a policeman take before arresting the name-caller? The Supreme Court has ruled that states could ban verbal cop-baiting only if it involved "fighting words" likely to provoke a breach of the peace. But last week the court again made clear that no matter what words are used, the state law must first have defined the offense with precision. In North Little Rock, Ark., a policeman had heard one man in a group say, "Well, there goes the big bad mother- cops." Twice more, with pungent variations, the hecklers piled profanity on the policeman. Finally...