Word: verbalizations
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Thus a new comedy, The Busy Martyr, which had its New England premier at the Tufts Summer Theater Wednesday, is a droll play, full of verbal gems and a number of funny slapstick scenes. At the same time, one is unavoidably pricked by those barbed needles--needles which are nothing more than unanswered, unanswerable questions...
...regarded as too sacred for an entirely frank treatment." Many a young heart thrilled with pleasant astonishment at Dr. Slope's revelation that "most women ... do at times feel a physical yearning indescribable, but as profound as hunger for food." Generations of schoolboys have plowed eagerly through the verbal thickets of Ideal Marriage, whose author, Dutch Gynecologist Theodoor H. Van de Velde, could write: "As the grade and locality of stimulation are different, according to the relative position of the two partners to one another, so therefore the sensations arising from such stimulation vary also...
...oppressive as a headache," clumsily snuffles toward its collapse. Fyodor's trilingual life enables Nabokov to play complicated games with the meanings of words. Fyodor is a poet, and without warning his thoughts run in poetic form; only the reader wary of Nabokov's incorrigible love of verbal conjuring will notice that whole pages printed as prose conceal rhyme schemes or blank verse and complicated prosodical measures...
...sort of confection that only writing genius can keep from seeming half baked. Author Dinesen gets away with it, but only just. Here as always, her story creates its own magic in the telling, until she actually manages to convey a feeling that Cazotte, for all his verbal prancing, is a kind of spiritual incubus who poses a real threat to the girl. When, as often happens in Dinesen stories, raw innocence confounds soft corruption, the book induces, as if by some miracle contrary to all logic, an almost palpable sigh of relief...
...Humanities where Gen Ed is at present literary and philosophical, the Committee has talked about bringing into the Gen Ed program courses in "non-verbal languages" (art, music and photography) and creative courses in writing, music, art, and theater...