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...Verbal Zeal. If Britain comes into the Common Market, the French fear, so will Ireland, Norway and Denmark, and all of them recognize English as the language of international diplomacy and business. Should the Six become the Ten, pressures to make English the working language of the European Community would rise in The Netherlands, Germany and Italy, where English is the standard second language. Eventually, Paris worries, French could dwindle to a mere regional language, current only in France, Monaco, French-speaking Switzerland and among the 3,109,000 Walloons of Belgium...
Michener never explains why the Guardsmen fired their guns. He doubts that as a group they had been ordered to fire, but, he believes that "some kind of rough verbal agreement" was reached among the Guardsmen when they huddled just before retreating up the hill. So far, no Guardsman has revealed what was said at that huddle. "It is inconceivable," Michener concludes, "that the 76 men who were penned in on the field that day will be able to maintain their wall of silence indefinitely. In the years that lie ahead, someone will talk, and a flood of testimony will...
Nash practices were lengthy and spartan. He was accused of having recruited prospects whose academic abilities fell far below Ivy standards. Several times critics claimed that he attempted to use verbal psyche tactics on rival oarsmen before important races. His supposedly manic pursuit of victory created enemies...
Edwin Land's speech was not obstructed, nor was it threatened; it was cancelled by a group of Physics professors who wished to spare Land a verbal confrontation on Polaroid in South Africa. About 60 protesters had gathered at an impromptu meeting which Weinrub chaired, and they had voted to approach Land before his scheduled talk on colorvision. At an earlier meeting of scientists in New York, Land had been publicly questioned for the first time on his company's business activity in South Africa, and he had been badly upset by the experience. The professors-several of them...
...point. You may indeed consider me a baiter, but in fact I am only saying that such big words as used by PLP in its dissertation on free speech normally constitute a courageous commitment. I suggest that the little bourgeois revolutionaries of Harvard who regard such tracts as only verbal exercises should get off their campus and see what the real world is like. Despite the niceties of intellectual bestiality, out there where men live, verbal violence and physical violence blend together into an unbroken continuum. Brave words are considered brave because of the physical commitment that lies behind them...