Word: verbalism
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Howard Reinheimer, a Tufts senior, said Mr. Test approached him after the exam, waving his test form and telling him he had to fill in his name and couldn't cancel his score on the verbal section. Reinheimer said he ripped up his exam and then panicked as Mr. Test allegedly threatened to blacklist him with the Educational Testing Service...
...Chelsea, who has shows up at the Thayer's summer home for Norman's birthday. One can believe that Chelsea would turn up for such an event, but it's a bit of a strain to imagine her bringing along her demind-boyfriend to be skewered by Norman's verbal parries. The dentist (Debney Coleman), incidentally, is the real McCoy; he wears a light blue cotton Suit, a white and blue plaid short and a dark solid tie. Now that is a dentist. What requires a great leap of faith is understanding why Chelsea wants to unload the dentist...
...animals is language, articulate consciousness. What distinguishes Jack Abbott from millions of other convicts is a prose style that was capable of catching a famous writer's attention. It is interesting that, as psychologists have noted, some hopelessly inarticulate teenagers have committed murder because they simply lacked the verbal skill to communicate their anger in any other way; Abbott has at his command both the sophisticated and the more primitive forms of communication...
John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, and William F. Buckley, editor of the National Review, faced off last week in a debate of the Reagan administration's economic program. The verbal battle drew a capacity crowd of 1200 to Sanders Theater, and hundreds of others had to be turned away. But for those who missed the heated and often humorous exchanges, the debate will be broadcast on Buckley's "Firing Line" television program January...
Finally, if Reagan's initial actions appeared too ineffectual to many, others believed that his verbal responses to the crackdown suitably combined righteous anger with hints of flexibility and a new sense of pragmatism about the realities of foreign policy. For example, in an NBC television interview last week, Reagan emphasized that his actions were not meant to encourage the Poles to "start manning the barricades." Added Reagan: "Talk of that kind led the Hungarians years ago to take to the streets with little more than sticks and stones against Soviet tanks. We didn't want a repeat...