Word: verbalizations
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QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL, by Elizabeth Bishop. One of the finest descriptive poets now at work presents a magnificent album of verbal snapshots, the best of them taken in Brazil...
...served on the Massachusetts and New England selection committees, I believe these impressions are somewhat in error. The selection committees received no instruction or intimation, either written or verbal, from the American office of the Rhodes Trust at Swarthmore regarding last year's heavy Harvard representation. The sole criterion now and always is that of selecting the best men in terms of the Rhodes specifications...
...group--20 member of the Class of '61--had grown up in California's Imperial Valley, where his father made $4500 a year icing railroad cars. His mother, a Mexican, spoke little English, and neither parent wanted their son to go to college. The student's Scholastic Aptitude Test verbal score was 415, and his math score was 452. The college guide books caution that scores this low often indicate a serious inability to cope with college work. Yet the boy was first in his class, student body president, and a debater...
President Johnson steadfastly refused to discuss the ceasefire, insisting that any comment should come from U.S. military men in Saigon. There was no letup in the Communists' verbal war. Peking continued to denounce the U.S. for defending South Viet Nam and heaped scorn on the President's repeated offers of unconditional negotiations. "They will be buried in the sea of a people's war," ranted Hsinhua, Red China's official press agency. "Neither 'unconditional discussions' nor 'suspension of bombing' can deceive the South Vietnamese or other people...
...Angels is emphasized by the excellent short which preceds it. Lonely Boy, a 15-minute documentary on Paul Anka, displays the singer's world with wild irony. Interviews are shot full in the face, with quick cuts to the hands or facial features to support a verbal point. (Anke's manager: "The boy is great, simply great. We haven't seen such a talent in five hundred years." Anka: "I'm just using the talent I was given to make people happy.") The shots of Anka's performances are superb: a focus on the singer, his face, then a quick...