Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of the faculty. The two Texans have scrupulously avoided public battles, but their subordinates have been less inhibited. Those loyal to DeBakey, for example, have fostered the impression that Cooley has performed some of his 20 heart transplants prematurely. Cooley's lieutenants, on the other hand, dismiss this as professional jealousy; they point out that Cooley performed his first transplant three months before DeBakey did. DeBakey's associates also expressed concern about the purely experimental status of artificial hearts. The Baylor heart was reportedly tested in calves at least four times. The animals died on the operating...
Your irrationality makes me wonder how you were ever admitted into Columbia. You confuse rhetoric with reasoning. Assertions are not facts. Passion is no substitute for knowledge. Slogans are not solutions. Your idealism takes no brains. And when you dismiss our differences with contempt, you become contemptible. Very sincerely yours, LEO ROSTEN...
Defense Testimony. LTV vowed to defend itself vigorously. Its officers dismiss concern about reciprocal trading by noting that business among LTV's ten subsidiaries has traditionally amounted to less than 1% of company sales. As for the supposed dangers of economic concentration, no one has yet proved that industrial bigness necessarily means badness. On the contrary, the U.S. has prospered in world trade precisely because of the relatively large size and resources of its companies. The takeover of Jones & Laughlin by an aggressive outsider like Jim Ling could prove something of a welcome stimulus to the clubby steel manufacturers...
...anthropologist," says one colleague, "she is not a Jesus. She is a St. Paul." Paul, of course, was not welcomed unequivocally by his fellow Christians, and for all her prestige, Dr. Mead is not considered beyond criticism by her colleagues. Younger anthropologists sometimes dismiss her broad field inquiries as no more substantial than "a wind blowing through the palm trees." Other Pacific investigators have produced evidence that runs counter to her assessments of tribal personality. Most of all, anthropologists stand aghast at the way her powerful mind sometimes links fact and implication with little more than pure faith...
...seems to me that you should admit in the case of Soc Rel 148-9 and in the ROTC dispute you use arguments about academic control and excellence to support what you like (abolition of ROTC) and dismiss them as irrelevant in campaigning against something you don't like (abolishment of Soc Rel 148-9). You should admit that you see both issues in political terms and that any talk about academic concerns are pure obfuscations...