Word: verbalizations
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...major daily critics stood 5-2 against the play with various qualifications, including praise for the cast. But by careful selection, the ad performed wonders of verbal alchemy. Samples...
...more striking than the odor and abundance of verbal onions flung by speaker after speaker at TIME'S coverage of Kwame Nkrumah and Tom Mboya was the evident, marked apathy of almost the whole audience of half a thousand persons. Their mood, in sharp and significant contrast with the onstage pyrotechnics was, I think, a reassuring earnest of the common sense and natural warmth accorded the U.S. throughout Accra. Restless, unawed, good-humored, but occasionally stirred at mention of their country's independence, the crowd resembled nothing quite so much as a latter-day July 4 gathering...
Monsignor Ronald Knox was skittish about moths, mice and telephones. He was at his ease among pogo sticks (once he navigated a flight of stairs on one), the pipe smoke and verbal parry of Oxford common rooms, Latin verse and the English language. Temperamentally an esthete, he nonetheless made sense and clarity the chief goals of his monumental translation of the Bible. Intellectually the most ornamental English convert to Roman Catholicism since John Henry Newman, he was too diffident and self-effacing to aspire to a cardinal's red hat. His was the subtler role of a kind...
...story for the Crimson is the balanced play all the way through the lineup. Figures speak better than verbal comparison: the first, second, and third lines have scored, respectively, 10, 11, and 9 goals, while the defense has tallied 10 goals. The team scoring leaders are closely bunched: Jim Dwinell and Stew Forbes 12 points, Mike Graney 10, Dave Crosby and Bruce Thomas 8, Dean Alpine, Bob Anderson, Dave Grannis and Tom Heintzman...
...Indian language, Urdu, with any proficiency. Ordinarily he gives long, rambling, extemporaneous talks in English, full of digressions and schoolmasterly asides, that are translated into the local dialect by interpreters. Vast crowds of up to a million assemble to hear him, but the contact is more emotional than verbal. What happens is called by Indians darshan, communion. The multitude is somehow comforted and reassured not by the words but by the presence of Nehru. And Nehru himself seems to lose every trace of fatigue, becomes more alive, uninhibited and relaxed, and he returns to his job with his spiritual batteries...