Word: verbalizations
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Harvard will not be in Ithaca today, but do not fret. Cornell may be strong on professional image, but it can't defend itself from the onslaught of Ivy verbal abuse. Cornell will run all over the field to prove itself to Duffy Dougherty, but Harvard will keep its cool wits and prevail...
...many older people are strangely attracted to children's literature in spite of (or for) the fact that it does not often perform cerebral and verbal scrobatics. The Annotated Alice (in Wonderland) is an admittedly fascinating example of the adult urge to examine and the understand fantasy. But does such squinting really bring anyone closer to seeing what Lewis Carroll was up to? Or did he expect us simply to accept the imaginative irrationality of his books...
...consciousness that killed the efforts of the Living Theater. The formula is simple: instead of provoking the members of the audience into life with insults and forced participation, you entertain them and make them forget about themselves. As the seven actors move through a potpourri of skits, dance and verbal play, their high spirits are so infecting that by the end of the show most of the audience is up on the stage dancing with the cast without being conscious of how they got there...
...vignettes backed by a rock band playing in the dark recesses of the upper stage. They brush on life, love, war, politics, and alienation but the overt theme is usually beside the point. It is the style of each individual piece that really makes the show. Some have a verbal brilliance that suggests what Printer or Joyce might have done if they had been born in this country. One skit, called "Image Sales," is a staccato recitation of brand names, commercial pitches, and want ads that conjures up visions of America choking on its own verbal clutter. Another mixes...
...French writer who, under the pseudonym of Vercors, founded Editions de Minuit, a French underground press, during World War II and briefly followed the French Communist Party line. On the whole, Vercors seems to distrust the rebellious spirits he has known-especially those whose revolt was mainly verbal. The hero of his sixth novel is a meticulous and withering portrait of what he takes to be the type...