Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they were being injected with, and that their own doctors had not been told. Dr. Mandel conceded the patients had not been told that the injections were to be of cancer cells, but he insisted they had known they were being tested for immunity against cancer, and had given verbal consent. Hospital Director Solomon Siegel added that the patients knew they were being injected with cells. "The fact that the cells were cancerous," he declared "is immaterial...
...Miller's tale in a brilliant, grueling, three-hour performance. In the beginning, there was Mom. She is an angry, unfulfilled woman whose passport to college was revoked by a family-arranged marriage with a shipping merchant whom she regards as her inferior and lashes with verbal contempt. Infused with guilt by the warring parents and wanting to make up to Mom for her frustration and unhappiness, the boy takes his cues and values from the mother. "I want your handwriting beautiful, darling," she says, and the writer in Miller is given a beginning...
...Hubert Humphrey ever raised anyone from the dead? Who are these people down in Washington that we should place our lives in their care?" The speaker is Billy Brown, a dissident space-project physicist, and not since Humbert Humbert toured America with Lolita, strewing outrageous verbal brickbats along the way, has a zany voice like Billy's been heard in the land...
...alternative to demonstrations and a progressive achievement that can't be lost," Clifton said. He predicted that the 200 fourth-graders selected for the project would make several years of progress in verbal skills...
Clifton explained that students entering fourth grade were selected for the project because reading deficiencies are first apparent when formal verbal instruction stops. "The minute you stop teaching them how to read, the kids start falling behind," he said...