Word: againstness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everything seems conducted at the same oratorical volume, whereas in the greatest romantic painters (Turner, for instance, or, in our own century, Pollock), there is a wide range of feeling, apportioned and understood, between the small, exactly registered perception and the grand, generalized effect. Still's colors tend to...
That may be an overstatement, and a criticism of blind reliance upon tests rather than of the testing companies themselves. Most companies have long cautioned against overdependence on scores. They note, correctly, that national exams deserve credit for enhancing educational opportunities, especially in the case of talented students from lackluster...
The culprit, he declared, is the culturally biased IQ test. Peckham quoted a similar ruling in which Judge J. Skelly Wright summarized the reformers' point. Said Wright: "Although test publishers and school administrators may exhort against taking test scores at face value, the magic of numbers is strong."
The remote root of the conflict was idealism, the immediate cause, greed. Afrikaners-Dutch Calvinist settlers-had been in South Africa for 150 years when the British took over the Cape of Good Hope during the Napoleonic Wars. In the 1830s parliamentary idealists in London decreed an end to slavery...
Faced with the mysteries of suicide, Friedrich tentatively offers such explanations as Freud's death drive and Emile Durkheim's theory that with the decline of Christian faith in the 19th century, suicide ceased to be a damnable act. The author seems to share Henry Adams' preference...