Word: verbalizations
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Belli has finally taken his case against Craig and his colleagues to court. What brought things to a head was his verbal exchange with the A.B.A. president after Jack Ruby's trial in Dallas last March. After the jury found Belli's client guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the King of Torts exploded in a torrent of comment on the judge, the jury and the city of Dallas. He charged that Ruby had been convicted by "the biggest kangaroo-court disgrace in the history of American law"; he called the verdict "a victory for bigotry...
...pearl producer is not an oyster at all but a mollusk known as Meleagrina), sketches of local characters, and wordy, impressionistic evocations of the Breton countryside. At such moments a reader's attention may well wander, but for the most part Author Clark holds him with wit and verbal polish. It is the process known as tromper le lecteur...
...NOVELS, by Brigid Brophy. These short novels contain glittering prose, a variety of verbal tricks, and almost too many tours de force to digest at one reading. Already known as the most tart-tongued of British critics, Author Brophy has now hit a fictional stride that should place her well up in the ranks of Britain's formidable array of lady novelists...
...trouble is that print is what McLuhan calls a "hot" medium of communication: sharp in definition, filled with data, exclusively visual and verbal, but (a key and debatable point) psychologically damaging and low in audience participation. Other hot media by McLuhan's rules are photography, movies, competitive spectator sports and radio. Hot media make men think logically and independently, instead of naturally, "mythically" and communally. This is bad. What McLuhan likes are cool media. These are fuzzy, low in information, but richly demanding on the audience to fill in what is missing. The telephone, modern painting, but pre-eminently...
This is not to detract from MacLean's accomplishment, for he most certainly has the knack, and he is both moving and horrifying. He makes excellent use of a stammer as a verbal pivot on which to make some of the many sudden changes of mood required of him. Furiously angry, he catches on a word, his hand moves to his mouth, and his assertiveness turns into fear. At other times he freezes for a moment, before delivering a pathetic non sequitur...