Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dorf and Williams have created a play with the form of absurdity, but lacking in the witty and poignant content that makes Godot so appealing. The audience drowns in a verbal melange that finally forces us to ask, along with Rob, "Is this story going somewhere...
These statistics from the Department of Education report do: "With the exception of the athletic rating, non-legacy/non-athletes scored better than legacies and recruited athletes in all areas of comparison [SAT math, SAT verbal, academic rating, extracurricular rating, personal rating, teacher rating, counselor rating, alumni rating and class rank]. In addition, the differences...were found, in each category, to be statistically significant...
...report continues, "The comparison shows that on average, the admitted non-athlete/non-legacy applicants scored more than 130 points higher on the combined math and verbal SATs than the admitted recruited athletes, and 35 points higher than the legacies...
Harvard students, with our 700-plus SAT verbal scores, like to think that we speak more refined English than the rest of the country. But even we fall for colloquialisms as much as any other community. Harvard-speak is not exemplary academic usage...
...Verbal and non-verbal cues from other students and faculty tell women that they are not valued in the classroom...