Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United Federation of College Teachers' strike against the nation's largest Roman Catholic university, St. John's, has wheezed along for more than a month now with both sides playing a game of verbal ping pong and not much else...
...Verbal...
Freshmen would need English advanced placement scores of 4 or 5 and verbal SAT scores above 700 to take the courses. They will also submit short manuscripts as "a brief check on the test scores," but "nearly all who apply will be accepted," Kiely said. On the basis of this year's statistics. Kiely said that less than 200 Harvard and Radcliffe students would qualify...
...teach-in on city government. Most of the recent meetings have been filled by the marathon testimony of suspended city manager John J. Curry '19, who has explained -- detail by detail -- how he ran Cambridge for nearly 14 years. But the long hearings have been punctuated by almost daily verbal battles between the four councillors supporting Curry and the majority that wants to replace him with Josph A. DeGuglielmo...
...music was, if not false, secondary to an untested talent for writing. The result might well have been a damp dollop of self-pity; A Vision of Battlements is anything but that. It is a high-spirited cadenza amid the brassy cacophony of war, played by a born verbal musician. Among the fictional souvenirs of World War II, mostly heavy, khaki-colored, lugubrious and dull, this is a glittering bit of Faberge loot-a bauble to defeat boredom. It also marks the first creation, though not publication (which was delayed 16 years), of the anti-hero in postwar fiction...