Word: verbalism
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Beyond the verbal comedy, what you will take home with you is the tune to the title song. You'll be humming it after you see the show. Yes, you will. Although the Gershwin centennial has come and gone, Harvard feels like a Georgian place...
...people loitering near the Kennedy School of Government who he suspected of smoking crack. Officers responded and questioned two males and two female suspects, A small quantity of a class-d controlled substance, which officers reported was likely marijuana, was destroyed at the scene. The suspects were given a verbal trespass warning...
...said those "who have claims deserve to bring them forward, but it's at a heavy price. The next generation will believe it's all about money." Yet the plain, if unsatisfactory, truth is that money is the most tangible instrument of compensation that society has at its disposal. Verbal apologies have been proffered in recent years by institutions, and by such nations as France and Poland, but sincere as they may be, they leave no evidence of penalty. Dollars, at least, may pay for a child's education, a mortgage, an operation, a coat...
...dais and nodded to her right at the Harvard officials seated at one table. She then nodded to her left where Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson sat on the other side of the room. It was a graceful way to handle a difficult situation, but the physical and verbal dichotomy was clear: Harvard and Radcliffe are still very much two separate entities apparently at odds with one another even as they both continue to support such worthy causes as women's leadership on campus. It was the briefest of moments in an otherwise successful ceremony, but it reminded me just...
...study, conducted by Illinois psychologist Laurie Kramer and researcher Lisa Perozynski, identified three main responses parents have when they find their children engaged in a verbal or physical fight: step in and talk it through with the children, threaten or admonish the children, or do nothing at all. As a group, both mothers and fathers believed that helping children resolve conflicts worked best in addressing the immediate problem. Yet when they examined 88 two-parent families with one child 3 to 5 years old and a second child two to four years older, Kramer and Perozynski found that parents were...