Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intends to fight Ali the way he did three years ago: "Stay in on him, keep him moving back, don't give him the big punch." Constant forced retreat, he is sure, will exhaust Ali. As usual Frazier is not intimidated by any of Ali's verbal attacks. "Ali can rap," Joe says. "I can fight...
...Sunlight Dialogues, self-parody pops up in thoughts such as "She realized, briefly, that she was merely a character in an endless, meaningless novel, then forgot." Veracity has been one of Gardner's lesser concerns; he has made it clear he has been out to make his own little verbal world...
...decline in verbal SAT scores does not have to indict either the schools or the students. Educational efforts of the past decade have shifted toward a more analytic type of learning at the expense of a large vocabulary of twelve-letter words. Unfortunately, it seems that America's primary means of judging her youth's intelligence has not changed to evaluate more fairly these differently educated minds. The SAT tests a worthless ability-that of memorizing words you will rarely use in high school, college or later life, unless, of course, you are employed writing...
...Verbal 443 Mathematical...
...measured voice in all this noise is that of Charles Osgood, whose five-minute-and-50-second Newsbreak programs have an audience of 2,253,000 each morning on the CBS radio network. While his colleagues concentrate on assembling verbal front pages, Osgood searches out items that newspapers are likely to bury. He interviews the teenage girl who got the idea of sending spiders into space via Skylab. He tells of the confession of a cat burglar in Miami who is only seven years...