Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year for the first time the College has issued a profile of the entering freshman class; the most interesting thing about the statistics is that they back up the Committee's contention that high scores do not guarantee acceptance. Three per cent of the total number of candidates produced verbal scores in the 750-800 range; of this group only 65 per cent were offered admission. The statistical situation is almost identical for the mathematical aptitude test. A little more than 14 per cent of the total applicants scored better than 750 on the English Achievement Test; of these students...
Last week all that changed in a donybrook fought, in the words of Poet Louis MacNeice, with "the soft-spoken malice, the ostentatiously throwaway display of inside information, the heavy-lidded, thin-lipped irony, the addiction to verbal arabesques, the exquisite verdigris of cynicism, that have traditionally characterized this city of sneering spires...
...defendants, said the judge, "were torn between conscience and an approved corporate policy, with the rewarding objectives of promotion, comfortable security and large salaries-in short, the organization or company man, the conformist." Even to those whom he did not send to jail, the judge gave no verbal mercy. When the lawyer for M. A. deFerranti, a former G.E. manager, tried to defend his client, Judge Ganey snapped: "But here again is the classical company man. He balmed his conscience for a salary of $60,000 a year...
...unpleasant. And there is a married couple who feud by doing each other's chores-she shines his shoes, and in riposte he Duzzes her undies. Invention of this sort is too much trouble, however, and for the most part the author amuses himself with the same old verbal...
Widening of Honors in General Studies is long-needed, and abolition of the verbal Honors-non-Honors distinction is a real improvement; the present proposal, for all this, is no more than a series of technical adjustments to make the 1958 principle more applicable, and it does not challenge the improbable assumption that individual instruction should be provided only in the context of an Honors program. Gill's proposal is a needed set of changes, but we aren't going to jump...