Word: verbalizations
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...tempting at times to resist Foer's writing. There is a certain quirky cuteness to Oskar that can be cloying. When he trots out yet another amusing hobby or one of his many idiosyncratic verbal mannerisms--he pronounces acronyms like ESP phonetically; instead of saying something is great, he says it's "one hundred dollars"--you have to fight back the image of Jonathan Lipnicki, the kid from Jerry Maguire. But these doubts are pulverized by the book's devastating set pieces, which are of the kind only a genuine talent who knows exactly what he wants...
Obviously venturing into territory where no twenty-first century man should ever find himself, Summers got entangled in a verbal thorn-patch of “differences in the standard deviation” and “different socialization” and, most notorious of all, “issues of intrinsic aptitude.” The effect—and not just to grandstanders like MIT’s Nancy Hopkins—was to suggest that women are not as prevalent in math and science because they don’t deserve...
Konrad pointed to the recent A-Rod affair—Jeter’s Yankee teammate Alex Rodriguez has repeatedly received verbal barbs from the Red Sox since the opening of baseball spring training camps a week ago—as proof that Red Sox fans should, wink-wink, respect his proposal for a name change...
...EXPLAIN WHY, IN STUDY after study, boys and men are still on average better at rotating 3-D objects in their minds? As for girls and women, how do we explain why they tend to have better verbal skills and social sensitivities...
...study of 508 boys and girls, Virginia Tech researcher Harriet Hanlon found that some areas mature faster in boys. Specifically, some of the regions involved in mechanical reasoning, visual targeting and spatial reasoning appeared to mature four to eight years earlier in boys. The parts that handle verbal fluency, handwriting and recognizing familiar faces matured several years earlier in girls...