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Members of the softball team had initially threatened to take action against Dartmouth in July 1991, The Dartmouth said. The complaint charges that the team had a verbal commitment from college officials to convert softball to varsity status over a three-year period, but officials later reneged...
...Fairtest report cites examples of biased metaphors in the verbal section, such as "dividends is to stock-holders" and "checkmate is to chess...
...good student, who on his SAT tests got "great verbal, nonexistent math. I was so bad at math I assumed any college would say, 'Well, we just won't ask him to add.' " The college turned out to be Yale. By now Paul knew he was gay, but he didn't worry about the local reaction. "Anyone from Jersey," he says, "would assume everyone at Yale was gay. Once you're educated above a certain point, to the rest of the world you're a big sissy...
...this production. At many points, Haahr ceases to be lovable and becomes merely annoying. Selig and Haahr spend too much time wandering around the set with no apparent purpose, screaming their lines at each other in an excited shriek. Both characters often seem to be engaged less in witty verbal sparring than in shrewish quarreling. The fault here lies with director Alexander Franklin and Elisabeth Mayer, who seem to lose control of the play's pace. The dialogue moves beyond hectic into overload. The tension and excitement, rather than growing gradually between them, has built too fast and too early...
Phil Munger as Rosencrantz, and Jacob Broder as Guildenstern almost lose control of the fast-moving dialogue. At times the audience cannot keep pace with the bouts of verbal jousting because of inadequate into-national nuance. But they more than compensate with their frenetic motion and lively delivery. Broder especially appears more comfortable with physical rather than vocal acting, and his facial and bodily contortions bring the house down. In particular, his protracted death rattle during Munger's meditations on burial has the audience chortling merrily...