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...odium of past membership in the Communist Party degrades a man's character as well. He can not, by implication of the board's proceedings, even be trusted to tell the truth. This can be the only explanation of the board's refusal to accept the verbal denials of present Communist membership by Professors Hughes and Weisner. Moreover, their immediate suspension without pay was hardly befitting faculty members of twenty- five years seniority...
More important than what was said at Peking, however, was what was not said. Formosa, target of Red verbal fury for weeks, vanished suddenly from official tongues. Neither Mao nor Liu mentioned "liberating" Formosa, and in the first two days of the Congress scarcely anyone else did either. Subsequently, according to Peking radio, one speaker fierily demanded the "ultimate" liberation of Formosa; a few days before, however, the word had been "immediate." For whatever dark reasons, China's Red rulers were for the moment not promising quick victory. Perhaps at Quemoy they had found out what they wanted...
Something besides the Paris weather is "absolutely filthy" in your story; it's that absolutely filthy word "Briticism." Granted that it has slipped into the uncritical compendiums which pass for dictionaries nowadays, "Briticism" is a case of verbal illegitimacy at its worst. Its father is unknown (mercifully for him), and it lacks even a mother tongue . . . What's wrong with "Britishism?" I wic you'd write in Englic...
With druggist's jacket With Lisa-like grin With frame sans picture With next of kin With sketch replete with verbal vision Why didn't you print...
...Chicago last week CBS Board Chairman William Paley urged fellow-broadcasters to put controversial shows on the air and not worry about the verbal brickbats flung by partisan viewers. Said Paley: "Oldtime editors used to take such threats and actions in their stride, as part of their occupation. I think we broadcasters can afford a certain amount of the same stride in the face of our letter-writing, telegraph and telephone critics. If we are fair and responsible in our decisions, we will gain the approval and the respect of the large majority of the people...