Word: verbalism
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...point ahead of the third. While three points might not seem like much, the effect can be enormous. Just 2.3 IQ points can correlate to a 15-point difference in sat scores, which makes an even bigger difference when you're an Ivy League applicant with a 690 verbal score going head to head against someone with a 705. "In many families," says psychologist Frank Sulloway, a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and the man who has for decades been seen as the U.S.'s leading authority on birth order, "the firstborn is going to get into...
...Bill Richardson is notoriously blunt. He is lauded for his sense of humor and willingness to directly address all questions, but lambasted for seeming unpolished and making countless verbal gaffes. When asked why he, who is half-Mexican, hadn’t called for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s resignation as quickly as his fellow candidates had, he said, “It’s because [Gonzales] is Hispanic. I’m honest.” When asked why he accepts lobbyist money, he acknowledged that he can’t afford...
...talking pictures, and "talkies" is a good description of his very voluble films. His Oscar-winning scripts for A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve were filled, stocked, clogged with clever badinage. Nearly 60 years later, those films are still among the pearliest repositories for Hollywood's verbal chic...
...least anecdotally, it seems that women are the overwhelming majority of purchasers and readers of self-help books. In the years since the Larry Summers/innate differences fall-out, a number of books have come out exploring not only male tendencies towards the sciences, but also female tendencies towards verbal skills and communication.And the research is carrying over into the classroom. Single-sex classrooms, once proposed with the aim of improving females’ scores in math, have now been lauded as also improving boys’ engagement with books by allowing teachers to modify content for gender. All sorts...
...Departed, Gone Baby Gone harbors many ambivalent secrets. People do awful things out of weakness and from a selfishness they persuade themselves is protective love. Affleck lays it all out with clarity and grit, though the actor in him can't help giving every star a big verbal aria. That guy--actor Affleck--probably also wishes he could star in a movie as smart and twisty and morally complex as this...