Word: verbalism
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...birds do not flock together. E.T.S. does not "define intelligence," nor is it a "regulator of the human mind," as Nader contends. Indeed, E.T.S. does not develop or give intelligence tests such as those illustrated in the article. Tests of scholastic aptitude, which E.T.S. does develop, measure mathematical and verbal abilities developed through years of schooling and life experience. They are used simply because they present a fair sample of the intellectual skills students need in college. E.T.S. agrees that the scores should not be used to the exclusion of other information. That does not mean they should...
Confronted by the new Soviet challenge, the top White House priority was to figure out an immediate U.S. response. Neither verbal outrage nor diplomatic pressure would suffice. Indeed, when before Christmas Soviet forces were detected massing for a possible Afghanistan invasion, Ambassador Watson delivered several warnings to the Foreign Ministry in Moscow. They were ignored until Christmas Eve, when Deputy Foreign Minister Viktor Maltsev coolly informed Watson that the invasion was about to begin. Said a senior U.S. planner: "There wasn't anything we could have said at that point that would have deflected them...
...impossible task; as he proved in Lolita, he is a master at adapting the surreal characters of modern fiction to the naturalistic demands of movies. His Chance is sexless, affectless and guileless to a fault. His face shows no emotion except the beatific, innocent smile of a moron. His verbal repertoire consists only of mild pleasantries, polite chuckles and vague homilies about gardening. Sellers' gestures are so specific and consistent that Chance never becomes clownish or arch. He is convincing enough to make the film's fantastic premise credible; yet he manages to get every laugh...
...force the pieces, he warned himself. Store them away. Patience. But how to be patient when he had so little time? ... All his professional life, it seemed to Smiley, he had listened to similar verbal antics signalling supposedly great changes in Whitehall doctrine; signalling restraint, self-denial, always another reason for doing nothing. He had watched Whitehall's skirts go up, and come down again, her belts being tightened, loosened, tightened. He had been the witness, or victim-or even reluctant prophet-of such spurious cults as lateralism, parallelism, separatism, operational devolution, and now, if he remembered Lacon...
Throughout the play, Gere handles the shadings of emotion superbly, especially in a scene in which he and Dukes stand several feet apart, not facing each other, and go through an explicit verbal depiction of oral sex all the way to its climax. Bent is not "entertainment" as the word is customarily used, but in its tensile strength and nervy risk taking, it is audacious theater.-T.E. Kalem