Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Worse yet, Millis' premises are as wrong as his conclusions. For the United States has not managed to remain aloof from local violence, nor have France and China been content with purely verbal dissent over the course of the Cold War. In Vietnam the administration seems to have forgotten about the disutility of arms: Gen. Taylor is reported to have said that there are no measures we are not prepared to take to win the war. Nor does the fact that France and China are both working on an independent deterrent bear out Millis' assertion that weapons are largely ornamental...
...Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Tynan, who are director and literary manager of Britain's National Theater, decided it needed a thorough overhaul. To thin out the verbal thickets, they called in Poet-Classicist Robert Graves, who made over 300 changes from obscure to understandable Elizabethan. To give the plot a new lift, they unleashed the talents of Director Franco Zeffirelli, whose earlier beatnik Hamlet had the hero intone, "To be or not to be-what the hell...
...Committee would have an easy task if it admitted the 1200 applicants with the highest test scores and best academic records. But this is hardly the case, and for the past few years a declining percentage of the applicants with verbal SAT scores over 700 has been admitted In fact, the Committee has continued to find a single one-to-six rating of personal and academic factors a more reliable prediction of performance at Harvard. The only major reexamination of admissions policy, by a Faculty committee which reported in February 1960, showed a certain restlessness with some aspects, like preference...
...Committee would have an easy task if it admitted the 1200 applicants with the highest test scores and best academic records. But this is hardly the case, and for the past few years a declining percentage of the applicants with verbal SAT scores over 700 has been admitted In fact, the Committee has continued to find a single one-to-six rating of personal and academic factors a more reliable prediction of performance at Harvard. The only major reexamination of admissions policy, by a Faculty committee which reported in February 1960, showed a certain restlessness with some aspects, like preference...
...essay has a crystalline quality; it is dense, sharp well polished--a verbal statue commemorating in abstract from the general contours of Mr. Epps" thought. In abstract form, unfortunately, his thought looks much like anyone else's thought. He has reached for the sublime and come up with the ordinary. And, saddest of all, the essay often approaches the cryptic, and inevitably becomes a puzzle to the reader. Instead of moving him, it leaves him either confused or complacently proud that he has figured...