Word: verbalizer
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...relate to. His pediatrician mothers don't save the lives of 30 cholera-stricken infants a day, nor do his scientist fathers discover life-saving cures for cancer. They are normal parents who read to their kids when ill, cancel vacation plans without too much ado, have a verbal fight or two without getting distraught over it. Byers' characters are not larger than life, despite their whimy--they're just about life size...
...genuine sense of discomfort in media ranks" that Starr would simply name names so easily. Even more discomforting for the all-day news networks: Their grand jury sources have suddenly dried up. For once, no one knows in advance which witness will appear Tuesday. Looks like Johnson's verbal spanking is working already...
Chinese nationals celebrated their president'svisit by waving China's bright red flags alongsidethe Star-Spangled Banner. Chanting "One China,"supporters lined the streets around SandersTheatre and exchanged verbal volleys withanti-Jiang protesters...
...book Higher Learning, former Harvard President Derek C. Bok made a detailed assessment of the worth of a Harvard undergraduate education. According to a study conducted by Harold Bowen in 1977, Harvard teaches students a great deal of "substantive knowledge," and those students make "moderate gains" in verbal skills. Critical thinking tends to improve and students in quantitative concentrations show dramatic improvements in mathematical ability. More personally, seniors seem to know themselves much better than they did their first year, as measured by their own awareness of their "aspirations, abilities, and limitations...
Think of Nory as Charlie Brown with a richer imagination and keener insights. On visual and verbal communication, for example: "Stained glass was invented to tell stories in pictures because so few people could read back then. Now we have to read twenty-five books just to figure out what the stained glass is saying, so it's the opposite of before, when you didn't read but just looked around and thought...