Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Basis for Decision. The papers carrying that notation are the ones that President Eisenhower is least likely to question, for he knows what lies behind the Adams seal of approval. Basic to the White House staff system is the rule that no verbal assumptions are made: everything possible is put in writing for staff processing. Whenever a Cabinet member or other Government officer makes a recommendation to President Eisenhower, he is asked to submit it in writing...
Moreover, this reinforces the fact that O'Casey's true genius is comic, that his tragedy-save perhaps in The Plough and the Stars-verges on sentimentality or melodrama. It is laughter that really soars in Red Roses, not feeling or poetry. The verbal gifts are there. But too often they miss magic by striving for it, or seem almost to be spoofing the Irish love of words. But where Synge, in The Playboy, could spoof that love and in the very process make prose beautiful, a more reflective O'Casey mingles honest rhythms with gaudy ones...
Statistics for any class in the College illustrate what sort of competition applicants to Harvard must face. In the Class of 1957, for instance, 50 percent of the students scored over 609 on the verbal aptitude section of the College Board examinations; less than ten percent fell under the 500 mark. Only 165 of the some 1900 colleges and junior colleges in the United States expect applicants to take these tests. Since 500 is the median score, students here are among the best who applied to these most selective colleges. Similarly with rank in class, more than half...
...Russian mind, much broad talk of love is entirely consonant with much narrow practice of hatred; but Khrushchev, for all the verbal virtuosity of his performance, for-all the too-familiar clasping of Asia to his bosom, has been treating the intelligence of his hosts with no little contempt if he imagines that his torrent of words is enough to sweep them off their feet...
...level of academic ability of the Harvard population, however, has been going up. The median Scholastic Aptitude Test verbal score of the entering class has gone up in the last four years from 582 to 632 and it will probably go up still further, but not much, I hope. The median Scholastic Aptitude Test mathematical score this year...