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...stands at Gainesville was a fan, Bob Post, who has lately described Big Daddy in print as a "crafty empiric." (It was empiricism when Garlits, recovering in the hospital from his transmission troubles, concluded that drag racing would be safer, and also faster, if the engine were behind the driver rather than in front--a crazy idea that is now standard.) Post edits Technology and Culture and is also a curator at the Smithsonian Institution. The fine points of dragster design have moved him to write: "I have found no human artifact that pleases me more than an earthshaking, fire...
Assertions that alcohol causes certain diseases, affects the brain tissue, or causes a shortening of life "have been disproved by objective and empiric evidence that could be repeated in any laboratory, he stated.
As Man of the Year Stalin, too, has certain grave disqualifications, one moral, the other empiric. Even Stalin himself could no longer hold up the banner of the proletarian revolution as the hope of mankind. All he now holds is the strength of the Russian armies battling in a war...
An inquiry Mr. Gray initiated at that time . . . served to direct scientific and empiric thought toward a question which Mr. Gray's findings answered in precisely the same manner as did Professor Laird's. . . .
The Hollywood Herald called Strange Interlude "empiric." Critics thought this widely advertised trick play, though undramatic, might interest cinema audiences in a narrative type of cinema, set a new and profitable fashion.