Word: debunkment
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...floor open to questions. "The only thing that a Southern white man respects is another man like him who has a gun and is ready to fight and die." Sim said, explaining why he formed the Deacons last February. The audience took it from there, as Sims proceeded to debunk some myths and perpetuate others about the Negro defense organization...
Jencks seeks to refute those who reflexively debunk the ability of computers to do more than chemical data processing. "Electronic intelligence," he says, "is still mostly promise rather than performance, but it has already begun to reflect something of the workings of the mind." He looks forward to a generation of computers that will be able to understand the written word, locate consistencies, and follow inferences. Like McConnell's tentative conclusions, Jencks' predictions strongly suggest that a vitalistic view of the operations of the mind soon may no longer be tenable. If the functioning of the mind can be understood...
...concern with the abuse of talent is more than a housewifely horror of waste. Richard Ford is the man who has everything but has lost possession of himself. He is possessed by the world and lived by others. The treachery of money and fame is that they debunk money and fame, and Mrs. Kerr hints at this but refuses to put bite in the insight...
Furthermore, it is rather easy to debunk the notion that Harvard should train men to occupy top positions in nearly all fields throughout the country. In contrast to Britain (where Oxford and Cambridge men dominate business and the civil service, and academic life) America is far too diverse and democratic to accept a small homogeneous elite. Political leaders and business leaders gain standing in particular states and in particular companies, not through their undergraduate education...
...Kennan points out that the Allies main motive was to before the Eastern Front, even if this necessitated everthrowing the Bolshevik government. But Kennan is somewhat obscure in ex planing why the intervention continued a year and a half after the end of the war. Similarly, Kennan tries to debunk the Soviet contention that the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939 was entirely due to the West's failure to stand up to Hitler at Munich. But one is left wondering whether there would have been such a Pact had the West done just that...