Word: verbalizations
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When the inspiration for such dialogue fails, Willingham fills in with obscenity. By page 318, even the hero is overcome: "The verbal diarrhea. It's getting me down. I'm sinking...
Under that kind of verbal assault, so is the naturalistic novel. Fifteen years ago, with such figures as Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passes and the early Farrell in the crew, young novelists rushed to sign on the happy ship. But in the hands of those who seem to think of life as just another four-letter word, it becomes a drifting derelict...
...Hartnett each 25 minutes for their opening statements, two five-minute rebuttals for Blanshard, a ten-minute rebuttal for Hartnett, and a final half-hour of questions from the floor. Instead of a symmetrical, point-by-point exchange of attack and riposte, the discussion often became a kind of verbal Indian warfare, with the opponents sniping at each other from whatever cover was handy. But certain key points came sharply into focus...
Also in Houston, where he was named an honorary Texan, Lauritz Melchior took a verbal poke at Metropolitan Opera Manager Rudolph Bing. Had he and Bing yet worked out a new contract at the Met? Cracked Melchior: "I recently became a lone star, and this honorary citizenship in the Lone Star State confirms...
...Astonished Heart (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International) returns Britain's Noel Coward to the screen in the double role of scenarist and star.' For a while, it seems cause for mild celebration. Coward still handsomely fills a Mayfair drawing room with the glitter of verbal bric-a-brac. But when he begins using the stagy artifice of his comedies in behalf of a plot that combines half-baked psychiatry with bogus tragedy, even his admirers are likely to blush...