Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flags and floating balloons, he can mesmerize and uplift. But when he speaks extemporaneously, the effect can be more halting than inspirational. He has long been notorious for bungling facts. He often mangles syntax. Somehow, with a quip or a smile, he usually manages to fight free of his verbal tangles, leaving listeners only uneasy, not alarmed...
Last December Ronis worked with von Baeyer on 'Earth," a non-verbal evolution story which marked von Baeyer's directing debut at Harvard in "Earth," or Bacyer used the same method of turning improvisation into performance, he said...
Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III noted in his 1972 study of the arts at Harvard, the notion of a "university" is based on ancient Greek ideals, "in which reason and verbal discourse were far more important than manual skills and creative imagination...
...class of '84-took the SAT exam last year. The test is designed to predict how students will perform in college. But each year's results have come to be scrutinized as a signal of how U.S. high schools are going. The plunge from 1963 (when the verbal average was 478, the math average 502) to 1980 and '81 (when they bottomed out at 424 verbal and 466 math) was attributed to social factors, softening ,- academic standards and deteriorating schools...
...math, perhaps a result of increased concentration on math and science study. Moreover, at a time when the quality of America's teachers has raised concern, more students indicated a career interest in education, and their scores climbed more sharply than those of students generally. Potential educators had verbal averages of 398, up 4 points, and their math scores were...