Word: verbalizations
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Burke also added some final, verbal instructions: "Red, there are chop points to this program. Any time it looks as though you're batting your head against a technological wall-if you see the job isn't technically feasible-it will be cut off dead...
...booming arias, will attend his operatic debut. "After that," quipped Buitoni. "she will probably fly to Europe to avoid the noise." . . . Winging into Paris' Orly Airport, Boston Matron Rose Kennedy, 70. was forthwith thrust into a quarter-hour TV interview, proved as nimble as Son Jack in verbal fencing-although one listener described her French as "not so fractured as it sounded fried in bacon grease." A partial translation of the session: Q.: And your son, Madame, does he know well the problems of our country? A.: Admirably. Q.: Consequently, if some day he enters the White House...
...Author Kanner took his case directly to the people with a book for laymen, In Defense of Mothers,*- revealingly subtitled: "How to Bring Up Children in Spite of the More Zealous Psychologists." "And More Blah-Blah." In this book Dr. Kanner said: "There is no raid shelter from the verbal bombs that rain on contemporary parents. At every turn they run up against weird words and phrases which are apt to confuse and scare them no end: Oedipus complex, inferiority complex, maternal rejection, sibling rivalry, conditioned reflex, schizoid personality, repression, regression, aggression, blah-blah, blah-blah and more blah-blah...
Critique of Reason. Frankfurter has a deserved reputation as a wicked verbal antagonist. Asked his opinion of a grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson who was serving as Governor General of the Philippines, Frankfurter snapped: "I think Emerson passed through him without stop ping." In crossing blades with Alice Longworth, the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, Frankfurter said she had all her father's biases. "Why shouldn't I?" Alice Longworth replied. "Your father's a great man and entitled to biases," said Frankfurter...
...Invariably, the audiences boomed back: "NO!" Back in Washington, L.B.J. studied the Moscow cables as carefully as the G.O.P.'s Thruston Morton had-and made fast political capital of them. Shortly after Khrushchev's latest blast, Johnson took to the Senate floor. "Premier Khrushchev has launched a verbal attack upon our President which reached new heights of vituperation," he cried. "The incident underscores the fact that the nation has a pressing need for unity. None of us, Democrat or Republican, is going to knuckle under to arrogance...