Word: deviationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THE REVIEW IS A divisive force on the Dartmouth campus--a threat to the academic mission of the college and a perverse deviation from the scholarly norm of reasoned discourse. It doesn't belong there. And when The Review insists otherwise, its protests that it is a victim of a...
THE MAGAZINE HAS waited a long time for one of its own to inherit the Oval Office. And so it is keeping a special eye on its favorite-son Reagan. Signs of even the slightest deviation from hard-line conservatism have provoked strong reprimands from Human Events.
A national referendum was scheduled for early this week, but the balloting was regarded as a mere formality: Mubarak already had taken charge. The government immediately announced an official mourning period of 40 days and, as a special precaution, declared a state of emergency for one year, thereby prohibiting public...
116. The tests are biased at the right tail, in the predictive sense discussed above: a 700 is not a 700 is not a 700. But the direction most people anticipate. Test scores at the right tail often overpredict the later academic performance of women and minorities compared to other...
Why then do we hoot at these mistakes? For one thing, it may be that we simply find conventional discourse so predictable and boring that any deviation comes as a delightful relief. In his deeply unfunny Essay on Laughter the philosopher Henri Bergson theorized that the act of laughter is...