Word: verbalizations
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...economically with centrally directed economic planning on a colossal scale, which has hardly begun as yet to operate, then TIME magazine owes it to the America it believes in to present facts, studies, analyses, objective reporting, and soundly based mature conclusions rather than the stream of adolescent sneers and verbal spitballs in which TIME is now indulging and which does your competent journal no credit whatsoever...
...cleverness of Hollywood Pinafore, furthermore, is so insistently verbal that the show sadly lacks the bounce, pace, bodily movement that should go with a musical. Chained to one set, it does not even-except except for a lively Antony Tudor ballet - rattle its chains with dancing. The show boils down, in the end, to some smart lyrics, snappy lines, Victor Moore's mis cast charm, Shirley Booth's comic poise, Annamary Dickey's singing, Viola Essen's dancing - and Sullivan's delightful but rather dry-docked score...
Stunning Resonance. Meanwhile the Labor Party conference at Blackpool ended a week of stunning resonance with a series of verbal thunderclaps. The mood of British labor, echoing Europe's mood of social change, was grimly set by Aneurin Bevan, leftist M.P.: "We want the complete extinction of the Tory Party and 25 years of Labor government." The Labor Party's program was outlined in a sweeping nationalization program for "a Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain" (TIME...
Suddenly, out of the literary bushes dashed Bernard Shaw, twirling his verbal shillelagh. To the London Times he wrote...
...that their source and meaning puzzled the Indians themselves. Clipped and pummeled into pronounceable shape by Spaniards, Frenchmen, Russians, Harvardmen, gold miners, railroad presidents and sentimental poets, they ended up as much Greek as Indian. In fact, they were American-the first ingots from the great U.S. verbal melting pot that put the second "C" in Connecticut (no one knows who did, or why), made Wyoming out of Mecheweami-ing, Oregon out of Ouiscon-sink (though some Irish patriots still insist that O'Reagan is the obvious source), Laughing Waters out of the onomatopoetic Minne-baba...