Word: verbalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Taking the SAT scores-Radcliffe admits a slightly higher percentage of high scorers on both the verbal and mathematics scales-the study concludes that using just the verbal score, the numbers of women admitted would increase somewhat, and using the mathematical scale, the number of men admitted would increase somewhat...
...student's first language activity in Moffett's curriculum is non-verbal dramatic action. The child "limbers" his body and expresses free associations of feelings and impulses in solitary play with toys and in movement to music. Pantomime, substituting the stimulation of an idea for music or a toy, is the first mode in which a student attempts to converse with another. After choral pantomime Moffett proposes organizing students in small groups, six or less in each, to enact short scenes from stories for their own group and eventually for the whole class. Verbal dramatic activity naturally evolves as students...
...would be best to split it up among everyone. The girl agreed, but still added, "I get the most." Moffett advocates the formation of small groups of students like this to read, discuss and improvise among themselves. The desire to interact with peers provides the motivation to increased verbal ability and solve language problems. It also continually tests the effectiveness of a student's expression; if he is successful his peers will understand...
Mailer recognizes this dilemma and his works generate a heat of verbal sensuality and direct experience in answer to it. If others listen, he may well play a large role in moving literature from its current sterility into a romanticism of a much larger dimension than before, especially if he turns back to the novel. He has already exploded the journalistic form; hopefully he will again write serious fiction and give the novel its first claim to life since Pale Fire. Last spring Mailer said that it was his dream (as well as contract) to write that big novel...
...course, never to be cornered, he suddenly gained strength for another verbal charge: "Dear lady," he boomed, "if I had known how difficult it would be I would certainly not have come! "She recoiled a bit at that. At which point the huge frame lifted itself up from the chair and lumbered out of the room, where the bodyguards surrounded him and took him away...