Word: verbalizations
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...Newark's whites and Negroes alike. But as originally planned early last year, it would also have uprooted some 20,000 Negroes from housing on the 150 acres of Central Ward land that the college wanted. "This," protested one resident, "is a diabolical plot!" After violence succeeded verbal resistance last summer, New Jersey Commissioner of Community Affairs Paul Ylvisaker began'encouraging black militants to mobilize a legal challenge against the school, which initially was planned as a research-oriented institution with little or no relationship to the slum community. Last week the challenge paid off in a unique...
This grim Beverly Hills hyperbole is the characteristic verbal coin of a man who is the quintessence of movie-industry cynicism and success. Bill Dozier, 60, started in Hollywood in 1935 as an agent for Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis, and has since been a top production executive at several movie studios and the executive producer of several TV programs, including You Are There, Studio One and Batman. Such is his reputation for plain talk that one-fifth of the registrants in his Monday-night course are not U.C.L.A. undergraduates but Hollywood directors, producers and pressagents...
...ferreted out his secret, and Morley has been forced to throw himself on the mercy of tax advisers. His chief consultant, Irving Spaatz (Jules Munshin), is a legal weasel of wizardry inventiveness. Munshin plays the role in droll fashion and is astonishingly agile at working his way through a verbal tax maze of inflated gibberish that includes explanations of convertible debentures, spinoffs, and sale-leaseback arrangements...
...Ranger bench during games, screaming profanities that would make a dock-walloper blanch. "Cash and cussing" is the way one Ranger describes Francis' coaching methods: players who turn in exceptional performances find something extra in their pay envelopes; those who let down get a stinging spray of verbal vitriol. Last season, after a lackadaisical game against Montreal, Francis announced that a "television deal" was in the offing. The players' faces brightened. "Yeah," sneered the coach, "the Red Skelton show needs some sloppy
Warmth folk-ins have attracted as many as 120 people, Somit said, but a dozen people has been a good crowd for other nights. Activities planned for the future include non-verbal communication experiences, kite fly-ins on the Charles, body paint-ins, and reverse trick-or-treat, with volunteers going from house to house distributing candy...