Word: assess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Never again can history be the privileged property of historians. It has been invaded in force by straying journalists who are ready and anxious to assess it long before the scholars. Journalists Mark Sullivan and Frederick Lewis Allen wrote lively and snappy accounts of contemporary history. But of all the journalists who have attempted history none has made more of a name at it than John Gunther, 61, whose seven Inside books have been bestsellers around the world. "My grand design," writes Gunther in this brief but entertaining autobiography, "is to do a political guide to the whole known world...
...visited Viet Nam a year ago; from that trip came the stepped-up program of U.S. military and economic aid to the embattled nation. Last week, in talks with President Ngo Binh Diem and General Paul Harkins, boss of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, hardbitten Maxwell Taylor sought to assess the results. His conclusion: "We are making progress...
...meaning in life. Greyness of spirit is what one writes about these days; fair enough. But the author's view of things must not be greyed. And in Letting Go, after a few fine satirical flashes at the beginning, Roth becomes bogged in solemnity whenever he tries to assess his dreary hero...
...overhead, were disturbed by his tone. "We feel the astronaut was acting somewhat tired during the last pass," the Woomera station later reported. Added the station at Kauai, Hawaii: "We had the impression that he was very confused about what was going on, but it was very difficult to assess whether he was confused or preoccupied...
...Committee is in no position to assess the relative probability of this 'fallout primarily' condition as compared with the other contingencies implying blast and fire effects, and we doubt whether anyone can reach reliable conclusions on this question. Within the Committee, there was a wide spectrum of opinion as to the probability that the third contingency would actually obtain in the event of war. Nevertheless, the Committee majority was agreed that the likelihood is sufficient to justify the University in taking the modest steps recommended to provide fallout shelters in its buildings...