Word: expert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...check the operation of a vague generality under fire, take the typical example. "Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." The question is asked. "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of his age?" The generality expert begins his essay with, 'David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea what Hume really said, or in fact what...
...long run the expert in the use of the unwarranted assumption comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question of Hume not by baffling the grader or fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we first note the progress of that age on all its intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a certain amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
Streets meticulously ruled by an expert surveyor, law-abiding pedestrians and motorists, and lucid traffic signals all have their charms. Yet whatever the reason, the local conception of the traffic laws leaves Washington a less vital city...
...took the lead in advocating modernization is now the acknowledged leader of the Japanese steel industry: Shigeo Nagano, 64, Fuji's president. The son of a Buddhist priest and himself a Judo expert with a reputation for forcefulness, Nagano pressed for renovation and expansion of the industry despite official reluctance and occasional opposition from financial circles, who could not see so clearly as he the role steel would play in reconstruction. Following his lead, the industry inaugurated a $358 million, five-year capital expansion program in 1951. Japan's accelerated recovery, and the shipbuilding and railroad booms...