Word: verbalizer
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While both candidates were rightfully wary of running a negative campaign--Boston elections tend to be the verbal equivalent of gang warfare--being tough on your opponent and mud-slinging are not mutually exclusive. King waited until almost the half-way point of the five-week final election to seriously question Flynn's professed "liberalism" and "growth," by which time it was already too late...
...sent to all arts-and-sciences faculty members, 1,000 graduate students and 2,000 undergraduates, both male and female. Some 34% of female undergraduates (and a smattering of males), 41% of female graduate students and 49% of nontenured women faculty reported experiencing some form of harassment, ranging from verbal abuse to assault.* The occurrences and the concern they raised tended to increase as women had higher seniority and tenure at stake. The 164-page report concluded, "Clearly the Harvard experience is different for men and women. Women experience an atmosphere that is more hostile and threatening...
...that a man's is not, because the consequences of her actions are potentially more devastating. A man walking alone at night might be robbed or assaulted, but a woman stands the additional chance of being sexually traumatized. A man wearing running shorts may invite glances, but rarely humiliating verbal abuse. A man can smile freely at women without too much fear of encouraging unwanted propositions...
Moore said Susskind had made only a verbal proposal to come to the K-School in February...
Literature that yearns toward the condition of music provides a more promising line of inquiry. Burgess explores lyric verse, the sprung rhythms of Gerard Manley Hopkins, the verbal polyphony of James Joyce. He envisions quasimusical novels built on principles of "structuralism, a liberation from marketplace meanings," and offers two of his own, M/Fand Napoleon Symphony, as exhibits...