Word: verbalization
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...simple phrase, "I misspoke myself." White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler enlarged the vocabulary last week, declaring that all of Nixon's previous statements on Watergate were "inoperative." Not incorrect, not misinformed, not untrue-simply inoperative, like batteries gone dead. Euphemisms notwithstanding, the Nixon Administration's verbal record on Watergate is enough to turn ardent believers into skeptics. Some examples of "inoperative" statements from Administration officials who misspoke themselves...
...overflows with sympathy. She makes sufficient noises in the vague directions of liberalism to insure our recognition that she cares in the correct way about moral and political issues which the films she sees might raise. She is overwhelmingly ebullient, yet most of the time manages to restrain her verbal sweat glands and channel her energy into vigorous writing. But if you sweep away her layers of reputation -- her accolades, her past accomplishments, and her present heroic-scale fame -- you find that there are no firm intellectual roots to her analysis, and no rational bounds to her emotionalism. Pauline Kael...
...discuss the editorials of The New York Times, either way providing a stimulating environment for their schoolchild. By listening in on the parental conversations -- "Bill and Mary are getting divorced" or "the market slumped twenty points in late afternoon profit-taking" -- he is unconsciously being prepared for his verbal aptitude tests. The exceptionally overprivileged child has an opportunity to mingle with adults, passing hors d'ouevres on the evenings when his parents stay home, at which time they might pat him on the head or say hello...
...Angeles County Museum and the Whitney. Its imprimaturs are heavy. There are two long and ingenious catalogue essays by Curators Jane Livingstone and Marcia Tucker, written, alas, in the impacted duckspeak of art magazines (sample: "There is a singular combining of the purely somatic and the archly conceptualized and verbal in his aesthetic cognitions"). Nauman's intellect and methods are favorably compared with those of Vladimir Nabokov, Jasper Johns and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Even Leonardo da Vinci is hauled in to serve as an artistic ancestor. The aim of this coercive litany is to persuade doubters that Nauman...
...class may have slightly lower test scores than its predecessor, Jewett commented. He revealed that the verbal test scores of those accepted range from...