Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about the accepted view that a Communist professor is automatically dishonest and thus unfit to teach? "The fundamental principle of American justice," says Machlup, is "that guilt is personal and cannot be proved by opinion or association; we cannot make party membership a decisive criterion." If the Communist is demonstrably dishonest, he must go. Then, suppose he honestly preaches totalitarianism? "If we silence him," says Machlup, "then we have actually abrogated freedom of speech, whereas he has merely talked about doing...
...Scholarship is the only criterion for tenure appointments," Ford said, "and the University would not be doing anyone a favor by taking a Negro if he is not qualified, merely because he is a Negro...
...scheme might also end the near-sighted economic rivalries between political figures who compete to lure industry to their states. It would impress upon younger businessmen the principle that maximization of profits cannot serve as the lone criterion for American industrial development...
College board scores are not much help in differentiating among applicants. There are so many high scores that admissions officials cannot use them as a criterion for weeding out "inferior" applicants. Further, Glimp and his aides feel that the value of scores in predicting future performance is strictly limited...
Schrade also used fate as the criterion for determining the character of the tragedy which a musical drama conveys. Baroque opera, he said, held "not providence, not moira, but man himself" as the source of fate, for man lived, in their view, "under the sway of the demon of his passion...