Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final failure came, ironically, in foreign policy, the field he knows best, and in the Middle East, the area which had been his specialty since he majored in Arabic at Oxford. How could this expert so ineptly misjudge at Suez? The answer may be that he was too long imbued with the technique and tradition that belonged to another time. It was a tradition that remembered fondly how Britain drew borders and created kingdoms for idle Hashemite Kings in Iraq and Jordan, or rolled tanks up to Farouk's palace in 1942 to force the King to accept...
...spirit of the age in which he lived?" Our hero replies by opening 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 he said it in, or in fact if he ever said anything. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue, virtually without...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumptions 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 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...
...down an acceptable risk, will as gladly work out insurance for a $20,000 cotton shipment as a $2,000,000 offshore oil-drilling rig, or a $20 million pipeline. While M. & M. does not carry the actual fire, casualty, loss, or accident insurance itself, it acts as an expert broker, helping companies place their insurance as cheaply as possible. One result of such diversification is that while many casualty insurance firms hit rocky going in 1956, M. & M. wound up its best year, handled total premiums worth hundreds of millions, totted up gross revenues of more than $20 million...