Word: elicitation
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Furthermore, Bosco condemns "Justice" professor Michael Sandel for making "it clear with which side his sympathies lay." For anyone who watched the debate without bias, it was clear that Sandel was merely trying to elicit some argument from Mansfield, who seemed resolved not to make one. Sandel's attempt to draw Mansfield out--and to salvage an embarrassingly one-sided contest--was more of an effort to rescue the floundering Mansfield than to harm him further. It is Bosco's article, severely influenced by obvious personal prejudice, that makes it clear with which side his sympathies...
...understand the nature of a collegiate prank, and perhaps assembling the co-chairs for a photograph could be found amusing to some. But to feign serious interest in our organization, to conduct both a phone interview with me and to meet with me again in person, and to elicit from me my heartfelt opinions on an issue to which I have devoted much of my time and energy, all for a joke--this, to me, is emblematic of the very attitudes that certain clubs promote. I have also been informed of another initiation rite involving the same club. This time...
...cite a host of precedents for this, from Claes Oldenburg to Jackson Pollock, but the effect really depends on the nakedness with which Kelley presents the toys as elements in a free-form psychodrama about threat and vulnerability; they're like the dolls that witch- hunting lawyers use to elicit the evidence of children in abuse prosecutions. The most successful thing in the Whitney show is a reworking of Man Ray's famous Surrealist object, the wrapped-up sewing machine. Entitled Lumpenprole, it is a room-size afghan rug with (what else?) lumps, the size of children's bodies, beneath...
...Teachers, the National Education Association and other powerful teachers' unions. Parents and students are the consumers of education, not teachers, but parents lack the organization and means to take on those resisting reform without effective grass-roots mobilization. A referendum like Proposition 174 had too many gray areas to elicit much supportive enthusiasm. In fact, the voucher timetable had not even been clarified to the voters. With a more carefully designed school choice ballot, a silent majority of concerned parents would revolutionize one state's education system. And they would vault school choice into the place of public prominence...
Asking these questions would elicit no more than the predictable outraged response--certainly not a direct or revealing conversation. But the question "where do you come from?" is even less revealing not because it tells no intimate details but because fewer people have one answer...