Word: verbalizations
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...irritate your friends (which it will), but because the iPod is an elitist, antisocial device that provokes the kind of class divisions of which only Karl Marx would approve. The campus is already divided between the conversation-loving proletariat and the expanding bourgeoisie who choose to forego all verbal communication with fellow students and withdraw entirely into the acoustic bliss of the iPod, or some inferior substitute. Don’t join the ranks of the latter...
While the Harvard name carries much prestige in Korea, its reputation had been somewhat tarnished following a verbal slip made by University President Lawrence H. Summers last July in his opening speech to Harvard Summer School students...
...group features verbal Claudius and Yale sophomore MC Platano—writer of such previous gems as “Pierson Sucks Dick” and “Pierson Still Sucks Dick”—and a trio of wannabe hip-hoppers rapping over a sample of Nas’s “Hate Me Now,” spinning rhymes an SAT tutor would be proud...
...before the national debate champion had a chance to make his case for why he should remain on the show, an irate bridal salon owner cut in, using a verbal slash-and-burn technique intended to make the other female contestant, the brainy Jennifer Massey, a 1999 Harvard Law School graduate, look ridiculous...
Similar questions about the achievement gap between blacks and whites are perplexing school administrators in suburban communities across the U.S. Nationally, black students in the class of 2004 scored 104 points lower than whites on the math SAT and 98 points lower on the verbal section. In the past, the academic-achievement gap has been attributed to the economic and social disparities between black kids attending inner-city schools and white kids going to those in the suburbs. In their controversial book exploring the issue, No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning (2003), the follow-up to America...