Word: penmanship
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...HANDWRITING ON THE WALL With Ken Starr seeking samples of Monica Lewinsky's handwriting, he might do well to consider the deeper meaning of her p's and q's. We asked Roger Rubin, the president of the National Society for Graphology, to discuss Lewinsky's penmanship, and he showed us this note, written by Lewinsky to the six-year-old son of an acquaintance. His findings: "She has high intelligence. Her letter formations show aesthetic awareness and sophistication... She's not a wimpy little girl, but a person of purpose... [I]n her writing, there are different styles, which...
Warner Books canceled The Diary of Jack the Ripper just one month before it was to appear in bookstores. A dealer in historical documents deemed the writings fake since, among other findings, the penmanship was not Victorian and ink tests showed the papers were written around...
...prove that the scores had been duly brought home and inspected. The drill called for the parents to write "I saw this" on the test sheets. Not everyone wanted to attempt this particular hurdle, and her pals turned to Masako, a good choice since she already had superior penmanship. "I saw this," she wrote confidently on their papers, until someone in the class squealed. In the dustup that followed, Owada spoke out, saying each student should choose whether to reveal her scores. Recalls a classmate: "At a time when everyone took the teacher's word as absolute, she already sensed...
...Harvard undergraduates to good teaching. They certainly do not get too much of it from tenured faculty, or so they tell me. It is in this quest I have become immensely confused. Good teaching clearly is valued by tenured faculties at major research universities only slightly higher than good penmanship...
This may be the age of the electronic keyboard and the video display terminal, but more and more U.S. companies are turning to old-fashioned penmanship as a tool to help screen would-be employees. "Handwriting analysis delves deeper into the things you cannot uncover in a live interview," says Phil Wizer, the Omaha-based owner of several Thrifty rent-a-car franchises...