Word: verbale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coffman expressed hope that his group's detailed analysis of the test results will indicate that they are effective in identifying students with special abilities not now identified by the verbal and mathematical aptitude tests...
...especially good. Fonda himself has a role much more difficult than any other: the attitudes and attentions of all the jurors center on him, and he must handle each in a different way. His involvement is complicated by his own uncertainty about the boy's innocence. He fights his verbal and psychological battles with great power and agility: his naturalness of speech and gesture are mixed with a certain resigned sadness in his eyes, reminiscent of his performances in The Petrified Forest, which make his performance faultless. He deposes the small-minded, big-mouthed garageman, leads the brawny, embittered father...
...case of the verbal analogy called "complimentarity" was used to draw an analogy between certain findings in the psychology of how people go about solving problems and why light acts as both a wave and a particle...
Although in quality these plays ranged from the verbal and visual excellence of Finnegans Wake to the dull pomposity of the Princeton effort, they all have one thing in common: none of them are easily comprehensible. Whether the difficulty involved in unraveling these plays is worth the effort must, in the end, be left to the taste, or perhaps the curiosity, of each individual member of the audience...
...said that the general empirical principle that meaningful verbal expressions must be analysable in terms of experience has been incorrectly identified with the proposition that analysis is the sole function of philosophy...