Word: verbalizations
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...that his job would be the most difficult in Japan. He knew that in acquitting it he should never try to dominate these demagogues; he should use them. Quickly he came to the point: ". . . Though I am an older man than most here, I will not shrink from exchanging verbal blows with...
...dreadful that the pressure of it has nowhere contributed to bringing man out more distinctly, to forcing him . . . face to face with God, as great tribulations in earlier times had the power to do. On the plane meanwhile cultivated, on which the newspapers are able to give a conscienceless verbal cross section of all that happens ... an incessant equalizing of all tensions is created and humanity becomes accustomed continually to accept a world of news in place of realities which no one has time or is minded any more to let grow large and heavy within them. I never...
...verbal preparedness blitzkrieg, the New York Times last Friday urged immediate adoption of "compulsory universal military training for America" because the "logic of events drives us remorselessly to this conclusion." Their bombshell was followed over the week-end by speeches and resolutions of interventionist groups praising the proposal to the skies. For most persons the question of conscription has crystallized the whole problem of preparedness--when and for what--and must be thoroughly investigated before a decision is reached. Such an extreme change in American living cannot be hysterically rubber-stamped. The crux of the decision pro or con compulsory...
...represent "emotional involvement"? I offer in evidence Dr. Zipf's letter, using phrases such as "Benedict Arnolds," "despicable type of disloyalty," "educated fool," "copperheads," "hypocritical agitation under cover of the academic gown" (cf. the full text of his letter in the "Herald"). The unreflective emotional content of a verbal communication is often directly proportional to the number of such phrases and adjectives. Any appeal to reason is hindered by their use. This criticism, if valid, applies to Professor McLaughlin's communications as well as to that of Dr. Zipf. Charles H. Taylor, Associate Professor of History...
...Fred Sullens was no man to let up. "In his verbal hemorrhage . . . judgepaul-bulljohnson denounced the editor of the Daily News as a cowardly assassin of character or something to that effect. . . . Our plea is not guilty. We have never assassinated the character of the most dangerous demagogue who ever afflicted a long-suffering commonwealth...