Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second-class citizen, barely tolerated but definitely not accepted. Examples are numerous of police refusal to aid gay people being harassed or beaten; in fact, harassment of gays, by police is still widespread. Any simple demonstration of affection or even simple acknowledgement of gayness can lead to verbal abuse or physical threats--and these I have encountered at Harvard on many occasions...
Worse perhaps than the verbal gaffe is Reagan's relentlessly simple-minded discussion of complex problems. He is aware that he is charged with this failing, and in his 1967 inaugural address on becoming Governor of California, he asserted: "We have been told there are no simple answers to complex problems. Well, the truth is there are simple answers, just not easy ones...
...that Paul and Sharon Boorstin offered MGM Vice President John B. Tarnoff. "The Boorstins came to us with a verbal presentation: a story in the tradition of Rosemary's Baby. We gave them a $50,000 advance on the movie rights, and they went to Richard Marek with whom they made a book deal." Like many current contracts, the Boorstins' calls for a series of escalating bonuses depending on how many weeks The Glory Hand remains on the bestseller lists and whether it is picked up by a book club. Says Paul Boorstin: "The new trend in Hollywood...
...course, was never out-matched in a verbal sparring match with Cosell, rolling off Howard's punches with a big smile, and returning the favor with some sneaky jabs of his own. Abbot and Costello they weren't, but entertaining they were...
...they maintain that much of what passes for language skill in apes can be explained by the "Clever Hans effect"-a phenomenon named for a turn-of-the-century German circus horse that astounded audiences by tapping out with his hoofs the correct answers to complex mathematical and verbal problems. In fact, as a German psychologist finally discerned, Clever Hans was picking up unintentional cues-changes in facial expression, breathing patterns and even eye-pupil size-from his questioner telling him when and how many times to stomp (or, more precisely, when to stop stomping...