Word: assessment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first of its kind given anywhere, "showed that, while incoming undergraduates had a lot of reading power, they still had a lot to learn about using it," he stated. The test, which presented a history passage to be read and assimilated under normal study conditions, was an attempt to assess flexibility and concentration...
...Moscow's refusal to let Pasternak accept the Nobel Prize and his denunciation by the hired hacks of the Animal Farm ("A black sheep in a good flock," "a pig," "a snake") have alienated intellectuals outside Russia-even India's Nehru protested directly to Khrushchev. But to assess the book primarily in political terms would be making a major error about Doctor Zhivago and about Boris Pasternak. The bitter criticism of Marxism cannot be missed, and Pasternak obviously wrote exactly what he wanted to write. But he also says: "My novel was not intended to be a political...
...Lonely Crowd, Riesman said, falls into the romantic category, placing its emphasis on specific social strata in this country. The book takes the U.S. as the chief exemplar of post-industrial society and seeks to assess the meaning of this situation for individuals and for institutions...
After every coach has been polled and every sportswriter has made his choice, there remains one man with the decisive voice. He is the pro scout. Others may nominate, but he must choose. Necessarily dispassionate, professionally unimpressed with headlines, he must assess a boy's football worth and back his judgment with money. So advised by those who decide which of Saturday's heroes will play next year for Sunday's paycheck, TIME'S choice for All-America...
...Washington, foreign-policy planners feel compelled to level their sights somewhat below the ideals, and to assess the practical consequences of U.S. support for Greece over Cyprus. Turkey and Great Britain are more important allies than Greece; and we need all the strength we can get in the current "cold war." Too bad about the ideals, they might say, but really, we just can't do better than try to stay neutral--given the circumstances, you understand...