Word: verbalism
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There's certainly room for straight talk and firmness in U.S. diplomacy. Bush's clarity could inspire sounder policy. To keep the tough talk constructive, though, Bush will need perfect pitch. Some may dismiss his verbal "realism" as the bluster of a green President who wants to puff up his toughness and resolve. Others may see the candor as a sign of overt hostility?and simply stop listening. Bashing Russia fuels anti-American forces in Russian society. Isolating North Korea doesn't reduce its threatening missiles. The Aegis could hurt rather than help Taiwan's security. How, asks Brookings Institution...
...government strictly to account on human rights," says Mark Thompson, Balkans program director for the International Crisis Group. Observes Henryk Sokalski, the Polish U.N. special representative who headed unpredep from 1995 to 1998: "We got a lot of visits and many great words complimenting Macedonia. But it was more verbal support than anything else...
Sixth Generation films, with their flat, generic titles (The Days, Postman, Platform), are about ordinary people: sufferers and inflicters of suffering, men of the street and ladies of the evening. There is little facial or verbal inflection, and few dramatic gestures, unless someone is smoking (and in Chinese films, everybody smokes, all the time). All these movies drop one big hint: in a totalitarian society, where anyone may be a government snitch, it's best to keep one's feelings and agenda hidden. To speak up, to shout or plead, is to be noticed; to be noticed is to risk...
...English curriculums and tests designed to be like AP courses for seventh- and eighth-graders. College Board president Gaston Caperton says middle schools "are crying out" for such programs. Researchers at the College Board have also developed an SAT for eighth-graders, complete with developmentally appropriate math and verbal reasoning sections, to get kids thinking about college even sooner than they already...
...English curriculums and tests designed to be like AP courses for seventh- and eighth-graders. College Board president Gaston Caperton says middle schools "are crying out" for such programs. Researchers at the College Board have also developed an SAT for eighth-graders, complete with developmentally appropriate math and verbal reasoning sections, to get kids thinking about college even sooner than they already...