Word: criteria
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Masters, in other words, would have to agree upon upon the precise criteria according to which the machine would distribute students. They would have a wide range of decision. Octtinger points out that the Masters could if they wished insure that the machine take into account a student's order of preference for particular Houses. Furthermore, a computer could be programmed to put slightly different groups of students in each of the eight Houses, and to preserve the present shades of difference between them. Agreement on what these differences are or ought to be, on the criteria for "weighted distribution...
...President must choose his successor, and the choice is an important one: A.I.D. has reformed and refined its operations, but it lacks a central mind to determine the criteria of eligibility for aid and to persuade the Congress of the value of experiment. There is some thought of appointing Mr. Sargent Shriver, a splendid Peace Corps Director whose designation by the President might be all that is needed to discredit the entire Kennedy family. Only one man seems to have all the necessary virtues: Mr. Eugene Black, who just retired from the World Bank. Mr. Black can do more than...
...reasonably descriptive." It is, and the two volumes are also largely descriptive writing. What will make a reader uneasy are the occasional flirts with analysis and elliptical judgments: these offer unblushingly direct ideas of what Newman's interests mean to him but an oblique and unsatisfactory view of his criteria of judgment on men of science...
...would be much more comfortable about judging Eddington with a better idea of what to go on. One can't say much for Newman's own criteria; they are usually obscure, and distressingly inadequate when he spells them out. Of Eddington he concludes, "He deserved to see farther than other men, and time, I suspect, will prove he did." Newman's enthusiasm for the scientist's social contribution has distorted his evaluation of the validity of his scientific work. Eddington, it seems, will prove to be farsighted mostly because he deserved to be farsighted. "His work is graced...
Newman has better criteria, he is keeping them to himself. His treatment of Eddington's cosmology is almost willfully negligent...