Word: verbalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scheper says he's always been "naturally verbal" and a conversation with him proves the comment to be a rare understatement. The voices--sometimes his own, sometimes The Harvard Booster, sometimes the broadcaster come and go in a flash...
...agents displayed their traditional cool in a potentially explosive situation. They let the two RCP protesters harangue the man who served as Secretary of the Air Force at the height of the Vietnam war. At the same time, the agents inconspicuously slid into position in case one of the verbal assailants pulled a gun. A moment before, Brown had been extolling the virtues of arms control...
...argument that whites do better than blacks because they have larger vocabularies is wrong. In fact, blacks do slightly better on verbal tests than on nonverbal ones...
...tests, both verbal and nonverbal, are not expressions of "white culture" that penalize blacks. Surprisingly, blacks do better on "culture-loaded" tests than on "culture-fair" tests that are carefully constructed to root out references more familiar to middle-class whites than to blacks...
Although Wolfe touches on space-race politics and the psychology of cour age, his views are neither unconventional nor meant to be. As our finest verbal illustrator of trends and fashions, he is interested in the truths that lie on surfaces. These truths are not superficial, though they are frequently overlooked in an age partial to overexplanations and psychic temperature taking. A 19th century novelist of manners would have understood perfectly. Readers in the 21st century will too, when they turn to Wolfe to find out the kind of stuff their grandparents were made of. - R.Z. Sheppard...