Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scrivner discussed the senior's increasing realization that there is "no real truth," a realization which comes at last when one asks his professor a vital question and receives as an answer, "I don't know...
...emphasis on grades can show worst in final examinations. Finals can and should be educational tools in themselves, but now they tend to deemphasize memory, and a certain amount of vaguely knowledgeable generalization. Questions which amount only to identifications, either of terms or places, or which permit an A answer based only on general information typify this pointless approach...
...fact-memory exam has only one justification--the assumption that tests are only to show how much has been learned, and need not be learning experiences themselves. This slothful attitude defends the exam which allows only one answer to one question (like "What was the center of cotton production in the United States...
...country club is an oasis of sanity shut away "from a few of the more unpleasant realities that surround us." With its parking spaces achoke, its locker rooms asweat, its bars awash, and a loyal barkeep resolutely giving the little woman at the end of the telephone the wrong answer as to her husband's whereabouts, the U.S. country club may just possibly be the American's castle-and in its way no less impressive than the Baths of Caracalla...
...Another was writing "a chthonian [i.e., from the nether world] drama mirroring the nightmare," etc. Even the man who might put in sewers would do so with a "somnambulistic clairvoyance." Finally there is the zealot nitwit who asks Miller: "What makes the waves go up and down? Can you answer that...