Word: verbalizations
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...Father and I sledded the oaks from the woodlot and put them down near the mill." A student of Early American craftsmanship and the author of volumes like The Seasons of America Past and American Barns and Covered Bridges. Sloane took the diary and dressed it out with verbal and graphic sketches, detailing the construction of a whole backwoods farm. Mere antiquity is not what interests him. Instead, he puts a shine and an edge on the tools of the pioneers, constantly admiring the care and skill of craftsmen who thought enough of themselves, their work, and the times they...
Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov. Always provocative, often perverse, the greatest verbal prestidigitator of his time successfully juggles a dead poet, a live scholar and an imaginary land...
...purpose of the project, according to PBH officers, is to improve the verbal skills of the youngsters in these areas. "Several of the children we work with," pointed out a reform school volunteer, "are in trouble because they become frustrated over their lack of ability to communicate. This is one of the major factors in their striking out against society...
...trying to increase their interest in books, we hope to increase their interest in improving verbal skills and hence in their ability to communicate and to relate to society in general...
Usually the gates slam on an Ivy applicant who scores below 550 in the test (scored from 200 to 800), but last year Columbia experimentally took a chance on 72 hopefuls who had done just that. Coleman happily reports that 69 of them passed Columbia's most highly verbal freshman courses, English A and Contemporary Civilization A, and that 16 of them ranked in the top half of the freshman class. Mediocre verbal scores, Coleman concludes, "do not accurately measure the well-motivated student's ability to survive, and in some cases to prosper, in a rigorous academic...