Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...based upon this weekend. Up until this point I had been hoping for a striking epiphany that would reveal to me the place I was meant to be--a quasi-religious recognition of 'home' in the Yard. Now it seemed clear that I would have to find some alternate criterion...
...blows there from the land. No. It's the waves... Piaget recognized that five-year-old Julia's beliefs, while not correct by any adult criterion, are not "incorrect" either. They are entirely sensible and coherent within the framework of the child's way of knowing. Classifying them as "true" or "false" misses the point and shows a lack of respect for the child. What Piaget was after was a theory that could find in the wind dialogue coherence, ingenuity and the practice of a kind of explanatory principle (in this case by referring to body actions) that stands young...
...Brazilian crowd flees a fireworks display gone haywire. "That's amazing," Nash says. "Do we know if anyone got hurt?" NBC, like Fox, the network Nash usually works with, is squeamish about showing major injuries. The Brazilian scene is accepted, not only because it passes the no-maiming criterion but also because it--as Nash explains it--"tells a story." A tape of a fight between fraternity boys and locals at a football game fails because it's "nothing more than random violence. It has no redeeming value." In hell, apparently, there are 200 different words...
...University's performance on another criterion-the social experience of black students-is alarming. Harvard received a disappointing score of 3.75 out of 5. While no ranking can be taken without a grain of salt, and the criteria of this ranking seem especially vague, the rankings nevertheless should remind us of a troubling fact: Harvard is still a place where black students feel markedly less comfortable than their white counterparts...
Beer said he thinks the House of Representatives is not the forum for a discussion of whether Clinton committed perjury because his actions do not fit the constitutional criterion of a high crime or misdemeanor...