Word: assess
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...closest equivalent to infinity in sheer living"). There have also been stories of "bad trips"-writhing nightmares that end in the nearest psychiatric ward. Occasionally LSD is a one-way trip. Since the recent flood of sensational publicity about LSD has let up somewhat, it is possible to assess the phenomenon more calmly. LSD is certainly not the means of instant, universal bliss that its most extreme and most ludicrous proponents make it out to be. Nor is it an indication of diabolical decadence or proof that, as Critic Leslie Fiedler predicted some time ago, the U.S. is changing from...
Journalists who assess the Truman presidency tend to be emphatic and categorical. This new attempt, by a veteran Washington correspondent for the New York Times, is dedicated to the proposition that Harry Truman was one of the great Presidents, an exclusive company which Phillips otherwise limits to Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, both Roosevelts, Wilson and Lyndon B. Johnson. But that is only Phillips' proposition. He does not prove it; in fact, for all his desperate trying, Phillips does not convince even himself...
...evident: subtle influences may be at work and may become manifest only later." Such long-range effects, Dr. Moser warned, may never be traced to the drug that caused them. "This is a shadow world of pathophysiology, where relation of cause to effect is at best diffi cult to assess...
...study, to be conducted by the 10-member Committee on Instruction, will try to assess changes in the importance of grades over the past two decades. Dean Ford, the committee's chairman, said yesterday that the study is not specifically aimed at altering Harvard's grading system...
...truth, no one can assess for certain the extent of Rusk's influence on Johnson. Schlesinger claimed that Johnson has followed Rusk's policy against his own "instincts and goals;" other observers believe that the President has used Rusk as a "hard-liner" to buttress himself against criticism. In either case, Rusk was calling for a militant policy towards the Viet Cong as early as 1961. Whatever his effect on the President, Rusk's "doctrine" is distinctly...