Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rare verbal statements. Beate and Lucio do not converse; nor do they touch. They communicate by literary reference. Lucio confesses his love by passing her a copy of Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, drawing her attention to a poem that ends on an oddly depressing note: "But every pleasure wants eternity-wants deep, deep eternity." She reciprocates by returning the book with the poem underlined in red. Lucio interprets these underlinings as a sign of her willingness to lie under him in ecstatic consummation of their love...
...drug therapy could replace psychotherapy. Sperry, who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine with two Harvard professors in 1981, has achieved far more. He performed brilliant and often misconstrued experiments which showed that the two halves of the brain perform different functions: the left half predominating in verbal tasks, the right in spatial tasks...
Collins said students submitted "a few verbal and written complaints" but that after she posted a written response on the bulletin board, the complaints stopped...
...American students never finished first or second and were last seven times. Before Sputnik launched a paroxysm of educational reform in 1957, average test scores were actually higher than they are now. From 1963 to 1980, the average scores on Scholastic Aptitude Tests fell more than 50 points in verbal skills (to 424 out of 800) and 36 points in math (to 466). And there was a pronounced rush from tougher to easier or "more relevant" subjects (see chart...
Although the report was unveiled at a White House ceremony, the Administration will evidently offer little more than verbal encouragement for reform. Even while praising the commission's work, President Reagan reiterated his belief that "parents, not the Government, have the primary responsibility for the education of their children." (He then went on to tout tuition tax credits, school prayer and the abolition of the Department of Education, subjects unrelated to and conceivably at odds with the findings of the report.) Local and state agencies, however, may be willing to spend more on education. Says Columbia University Education Historian...