Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rise has not meant a decline in the quality of applicants; just the opposite. Glimp estimates that in the current bunch of applicants there are 1800 to 2000 who scored 700 or better in verbal aptitude and 2800 to 3000 who scored 700 or better in math aptitude. The result is that, every year, a smaller percentage of those who apply with high test scores make...
...spokesman at M.I.T. said yesterday that young leftists spend too much time on "verbal ejaculations" about ideology, and he expressed the hope that the lectures would lead to a serious and reasonable discussion of Marxist principles...
Finley's hallmark is his verbal legerdemain...
...reporter, whose job at the State Department consists in a very large measure of assessing the verbal nuances that make news, could have given them the explanation that night. "I guess they just played it too smooth," he said simply as he put down the receiver. "You kept wondering what the hell they were really after...
...instinct for the male jugular, Beclch ends as a form of social parable on black Africa's expulsion of cruel, exploiting whites. Liberally scatological in its language, the play uses four-letter words as fashionable credentials. They seem to show that the author can spit the raw verbal gristle of experience at the audience coolly, and strictly for laughs...