Word: verbalism
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...tests will challenge students' abilities for learning new material, developing arguments and perceiving verbal nuances, Dean K. Whitla, director of the office, said yesterday...
...greater fear is the concern of some instructors that open files will foster an "old-boy network" where teachers will pass on only verbal opinions of students. Bowersock speaks of an "old-boy network in the worst way," where "some people resort more to telephone calls, talks in corners, or statements that can't be recorded or denied...
...less obvious, it is equally true that neither is this good politics. Rather than bring us closer to the truth, the play helps us keep it at arm's length. The thrust it makes into our lives is precisely that which we are most adept at parrying: the verbal scrutiny of motive and effect...
...Oilman as Ward and Kristoffer Tabori as Leeds. Mark Medoff, whose play When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? was an off-Broadway success last season, has a rare talent for juxtaposing fear and fun. Though The Wager lacks enough emotional depth to make Medoff's high speed verbal games truly revealing of character and motive, this is his best play so far, and it seems to signal even better plays to come...
...result, the balance of the second act is upset. Anna, commandingly portrayed by Eden Lee Murray, dominates the action through most of the last half of the play, with too much ease. Murray is particularly effective in her adroit modulation between pregnant verbal aggression and ostensibly pleasant urbanity. But the thoroughness with which she overcomes Deeley's attacks leaves us unprepared for Kate's final rejection of Anna...