Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...correlation between intelligence and emotional illness, Dr. Nicholai used predicted rank list (prl) as his measure of intelligence. (The Admissions Office figures a prl for each entering student, taking into consideration his secondary school rank in class, the average of his College Board achievement scores, and his College Board verbal aptitude score...
...lack of knowledge on many domestic and most foreign issues magnifies his verbal ineptitude. He is not trying to be ambiguous and deceptive; he simply is uncertain and does not have enough facts to circumvent issues and still satisfy his listener. At a press conference last year, he discussed the "British blockade of Nigeria...
...spite of the fights, verbal outbursts, and cries of anguish that punctuate The Crucible, Arthur Miller's play remains essentially intelligent and serious, never exciting or theatrical. Written during the height of the McCarthy era, just after HUAC's infamous investigation of Hollywood, Miller's saga of kill-crazy colonial Salem was unmistakably allegorical, its theme chillingly contemporary...
...awesome power to capsize the dingies and rowboats where we have stored the dearest values of our civilization, and if he sends them down with a chuckle, they are none the less sunk. Thus "The Last Flower" is superbly comic, and a model for the integration of verbal and visual art - but the theme is that humankind is doomed to periodic and violent disruption succeed by regeneration...
This time of year thou mayest in Casey Stengel behold a lot of the old juice. As he has for the past 52 years, "the perfessor," 75, arrived for spring training, flying to the New York Mets' camp at St. Petersburg, Fla., where he started a verbal pepper game with the press. Though he retired as Mets manager in 1965, Case still works as their West Coast scout, and after looking over the lads, he announced: "The future of this here ball club is brighter." For one thing, said Case, there is Tommy Davis, acquired from the Los Angeles...