Word: verbalizations
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...last several years there has been a great proliferation of interest in alteration of consciousness. The attention that first focused on mind-altering drugs has grown to encompass sensitivity groups and other nonchemical alterations of perspective. The assumptions of these approaches and styles usually included a rejection of verbal modes...
...Boston leader of the Black Panther Party followed Genet with a longer speech that reiterated some of the some issues. This speaker castigated the white audience directly for its "safe radicalism," the "comfortable verbal masturbation that never gets off the level of abstractions...
...Supreme Court Justice John M. Murtagh last week. With that he recessed the pretrial hearings of 13 Black Panthers accused of plotting to blow up department stores, police stations and the New York Botanical Garden. Murtagh's ire was understandable. For 13 days the defendants directed streams of verbal vitriol at the bench and the prosecuting attorneys, bringing courtroom proceedings to a virtual standstill. Murtagh's solution: let the Panthers cool off in jail until they agree in writing to follow the traditional rules of courtroom decorum. He may have a long wait...
Awareness of Death. Sloan's locale is a presidential palace in a Caribbean republic in the early 1930s. His emphasis is on death, ritual and the family. The family is presented as a verbal killing ground where people prepare for real death. The ritual of death itself is a coup de theatre, a mock bullfight complete with toreador costumes in which the killers and the killed are all humans. The conceit works in that both Greek tragedy and the bullfight derive their heightened drama from an imminent awareness of death...
...minute misconduct penalty after a brief verbal exchange with a referee at Princeton probably had something to do with his demotion. But some say Flaman has failed to live up to the potential promised by his performances in his sophomore and junior years...