Word: verbalizations
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...Ohio grand jury last week blamed Kent State students for provoking the shooting in which four students were killed, explaining that "the level of verbal abuse directed at the Guardsmen by the students... represented a level of obscenity and vulgarity which we have never before witnessed...
Dropouts with a diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive reactions ranked highest in intelligence (as measured by PRL), followed by unstable personality and sexual deviation. The categories of anxiety reaction and schizophrenia reaction ranked lowest-but the schizoid personality had by far the highest score on the SAT verbal test...
...BALD SOPRANO had a strangely stale effect, though the famed "Bobby Watson" segment and the opening interchange between Mr. and Mrs. Martin should, independently, justify even the most traditional revival of this play. What follows these two paradigms of verbal obfuscation is a dreary series of games which the Smiths play with their think-alike symbolic coordinates, the Martins. The caperings of Mary, the maid, seemed to contribute nothing to the action, but Victoria Fraser's quickness in that part relieved an artistic sore in the play which was repeatedly aggravated by Jim Lynch's performance as the visiting Fire...
What I can laud is the warm sense of cooperation which seemed to motivate the actors in these two parables of verbal aggression. They were acting in overwrought sets and from a scrawny conceptual framework. But they were acting at and with each other, in ways one could sense were both familiar and fun. Perhaps this, more than artistic polish, is what the HTC has to offer; and I intend the remark not in denigration...
...affliction no leader can afford: doubt. Lieut. Commander Fuchida (Takahiro Tamura) is an Oriental Smilin' Jack, all jaw and strut. Ambassador Nomura (Shogo Shimada), present in Washington when the bombs fell, is the same shrunken cipher who appeared in all the newsreels. It is he who bears the verbal assault delivered by Cordell Hull, played by George Macready, one of the few performers capable of diplomatic outrage...