Word: verbalism
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...like "the croak and cackle of fowls," but the rise of language, written and spoken, is all but universally rated as one of the glories of the species. What is surprising is that in the common give and take of daily living people still rely so little upon the verbal language that distinguishes them from the beasts...
...dramatics-by a dizzy diversity of what scholars call nonverbal communication. The reality is easy to overlook in an epoch that is bloated with pride in its dazzling technical marvels of communication. Yet, in spite of human garrulousness, perhaps as little as 20% of the communication among people is verbal, according to experts; most, by far, even when talk is going on, consists of nonverbal signals...
...Beyond a verbal reprimand, what should the U.S. do about Israel's unilateral action? This touchy topic was first tackled in depth late on Tuesday afternoon, after López Portillo's farewell meeting with Reagan at the White House. A group of Reagan's top advisers assembled in the Oval Office for an hour and 15 minutes. Present were Haig, Allen, Vice President George Bush, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, CIA Director William Casey and the President's troika of Aides Edwin Meese, James Baker and Mike Deaver. They reached a consensus with little argument: Israel...
There are a host of other problems that show the University is still bound by the not-so-glorious burdens of its past. Affirmative action wins verbal praise from the University, but most of the women who go to the Faculty Club are still guests. Theda Skocpol, an award-winning sociologist, was turned down for tenure here; she filed a grievance, a three-member panel heard her case, and then ruled that indeed there was evidence of gender discrimination. Others have suggested prejudice against junior Faculty and intellectual bias played parts in the denial of tenure...
...repeated too often becomes stale. When it is directed at particular groups of people over and over again, it begins to pick up in hostility what it loses in humor. When the groups of people at which the joke is aimed also are the targets of actual (not merely verbal) forms of discrimination, then it becomes offensive and even painful. If you still do not understand this, I suggest that you ask a woman or a Black or a Pole or a South Boston Irishman to explain...