Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dull stuff, prudence. Anthony Holden never hesitated: he wobbled out into the night. But as Holden, a British literary critic, reached the Golden Nugget's cardroom, he remembered the gambler's formula for chump detection: "If you can't spot the sucker in your first half-hour at the table...
...Critic's Voices...
Garry Wills has carved out a substantial career as a social critic by cutting against the ideological grain. Conservatives find him too liberal, and liberals complain that he is too conservative. Similarly, scholars think of Wills as a journalist, and journalists often feel that his work is unnecessarily academic...
...recommended the changes. The revision, he says, "begins to send a useful signal to schools that problem-solving ability is important, rather than simply the ability to identify the correct answer from a predetermined list." But Bob Schaeffer of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, a longtime critic of the SAT, charged that the board had failed to deal with the verbal section's analogy problems, which frequently make unconsciously elitist, racist or sexist assumptions about the backgrounds of those taking the test. On one recent test, nearly 16% more men than women were able to select...
...revisions have again focused attention on what one critic, author David Owen, has called "probably the most powerful unregulated monopoly in America": the Educational Testing Service of Lawrence Township, N.J., which prepares the exams for the College Board to administer. And not just the SATs. A nonprofit corporation, ETS is by far the nation's largest private educational assessment service, offering a variety of tests that range from electrology to law to the federally sponsored National Assessment of Educational Progress, which measures student achievement in seven subjects. Founded in 1947, ETS has a serene, campus-like headquarters near Princeton University...