Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Using non-verbal communication techniques, touch - trust - intimacy games, and a variety of group methods, we will explore what it means to be "persons together." A commitment to regular attendance and involvement is a must. Ten men and ten women...
...like an LSD sugar cube--if we grabbed at it, we might blow our cool for good. Bundy's less outspoken boss, Dean Rusk, was not as upset by Hanoi's offer. He said he thought Trinh's speech represented a "new formulation," but dumped his usual dose of verbal sewage water on hopes for peace...
Inspiration Gap. Johnson's "inspiration gap" is to some extent purely verbal. "The most eminent presidents have generally been eloquent presidents," wrote Stanford's Bailey in Presidential Greatness. "They were eloquent with pen, as Jefferson was; or with tongue, as Franklin Roosevelt was; or with both, as Wilson and Lincoln were." Johnson is eloquent with neither. Harry Truman helped overcome a similar deficiency with a roof-raising style on the stump, Dwight Eisenhower with an avuncular manner that inspired confidence and trust. Johnson's official verbiage tends to be dull, and though he can be pungent and forceful in private...
...Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N.J., which produces and administers the tests, along with achievement exams in such specific fields as history and French, for the 782 colleges and universities that belong to the College Entrance Examination Board. Officials of E.T.S. continually warn colleges that the two S.A.T. exams (verbal and mathematical, scored from 0 to 800) are blunt rather than surgical instruments, and should not be used as the main standard in selecting students. Even E.T.S. officials rate high school grades as a better indication of how a student will perform in college...
...Manning argues that this merely "reveals the extent to which the disadvantaged person is cheated in his education." Any cultural bias in the exams, the testers add, reflects the fact that college instruction and grading are also biased in favor of students with a middleclass style of verbal ability. Sociologist David A. Goslin of the Russell Sage Foundation argues that reliance on vocabulary skills should not be considered an evil in itself. "If facility with the English language is necessary for success in our society," he says, "then a test of verbal ability in English is not an unfair yardstick...