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Reminded that New York times sports writer Arthur Daley had picked Columbia for seventh in the Ivy League, Little chuckled for a moment, paused, then assumed a frown. "There are only eight teams in the League, you know Gracious me, we're not the team...
From the American Statistical Association committee, which has been fine-tooth-combing his research methods, Dr. Alfred C. (Sexual Behavior in the Human Male) Kinsey drew a nod tempered by a mild frown. Rating Kinsey's approach as "superior" to "other leading sex studies," the committee still had a few reservations about the "highly precise conclusions [he boldly drew] from the limited samples." Also, even though the doctor's own figures didn't lie, the statisticians wondered about his interviewees, some of whom were possibly afflicted with "inaccuracies of memory." The committee suspects that the variable human...
...quick smile turned to a frown...
Hoping in the Gloom. Hardy's poems are limited in emotion; says Critic Blunden: his muse "lives too much in the frown." But the range of Hardy's subject matter is as wide as the range of his sympathies. In Reminiscences of a Dancing Man, a gay country dance turns into the dance of death; in The Respectable Burgher, an English gentleman who has been reading "higher criticism" of the Bible decides to turn to "that moderate man Voltaire"; in A Tramp-woman's Tragedy, the heroine teases her "fancy-man" into committing a pointless murder...
...that Skinner is unable to experiment directly on human beings, because this would be the easiest way to silence his critics. But society would frown on anyone who stuck babies in a cage and moulded their behavior in set patterns, or observed their actions when deprived of food and water. Skinner believes, however, that he can perform less damaging experiments with the feeble-minded. "They wouldn't be hurt at all. They would probably benefit from the studies...