Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...memoirs and war-adventure tales, the unearthing last week of a live German bomb beside the Thames near .Waterloo Station, all keep alive old memories. Some might acknowledge that the moment was not propitious for old grudges, but the Tory Telegraph, for one, was adamant: "Dr. Adenauer's verbal explosion, tactless as it may seem, has the virtue of forcing both countries to face unwelcome truths while there is still time to moderate the harm they...
...particular dramatic genius lies in verbal manipulation, and the play's verse, ornate and intensive in itself, abounds with witty repartee and with imagery sustained throughout and amplified. The characters, each in his own way, fall in love with metaphor and this richness of language displeases only when it verges on words for words' sake. The setting in a God-conscious world gives an air of profundity to the word--a feeling intensified by the language--but an air not completely founded. Mendip's hell and Alizon's heaven and Jennet's "essential fact" are all modified...
Meanwhile, by far the most active operative on the Tufts side of the field was coach Bob Meeham, who carried on a running verbal battle with the plate umpire that would have earned him a thumb and a shower in any professional game. His loud-spoken comments to the unfortunate arbiter included such pleasantries as "rabbit-ears," "Get into the ball game," and assorted profanities...
...Fine Arts 13 and Music 1. Walter Gropius, famed professor emeritus, castigates this approach for an undue reliance upon "passive absorbtion" instead of upon active creation. As the 1956 Report of the Committee on the Visual Arts indicated, there is a valid and necessary place for such a verbal approach, but it should not be considered sufficient by itself to convey a deep understanding of the artistic processes--essentially non-verbal--which play such a widespread role in society. Along this line the introduction of the new Music 2 course in theory for non-concentrators in that field can only...
Scientific proof, according to Pettigrew, has demonstrated that girls tend to be more proficient in verbal skills, whereas boy's abilities tend toward quantitative aptitudes. This "genuine difference" results from "reinforcement." From earliest childhood, girls are "reinforced" in clear writing and expression; boys, on the other hand, are often directed toward more quantitative problems. This difference also helps to explain the girls' complaints that boys' interest are "profane"; boys tend to go into fields like math, chemistry, or psychology instead of more culturally oriented subjects like Fine Arts or Literature. "In the long run, however, this all works...