Word: hearsay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a very small outlay, every department could do the same--individually or cooperatively. Freshmen would then be on firmer ground in choosing a course of study. And even upperclassmen, instead of relying on dining table hearsay or catalogue blurbs, would have a more adequate basis on which to choose courses outside their fields...
...purpose than of vision. The author of Death of a Salesman has turned back to 1692 and the Salem witchcraft trials, clearly gripped by their hideous drama, clearly haunted by a conviction of their relevance today. He has watched, across the centuries, the hallucinations of children and the hearsay of grownups swell to an epidemic of accusations and arrests, confessions and hangings. In that unhappy time, any human doubt or protest was called the work of the devil, and the one way to avoid punishment lay in confession of guilt. In the foreground of this Bay Colony drama stands...
...Ripping Girl. Rupert Hart-Davies, one of Walpole's executors and a close friend, has not attempted in his biography to psychoanalyze Walpole. He has simply drawn, from a mass of hearsay, letters and diaries, a completely detailed portrait which each viewer may appraise for himself. The only warning Hart-Davies gives the appraisers is not to suppose that Walpole (as is often suggested) was a potentially "great writer" who "deliberately surrendered this possibility in favor of money and popular success." Says Hart-Davies: "Every book he wrote contained all that ... he knew how to include...
...shoddy case. The authors name some names and print some telephone numbers, but fact after fact hangs on the rawest form of hearsay, and the turn of many a phrase suggests that the co-authors worked with libel lawyers squatting alertly on their laps. Too many of the statements have no substantiation at all. this, for example, is part of the Lait and Mortimer pocket survey of the nation's colleges...
Communist subversion, he went on, "is a real and vitally serious problem," but the fight against it must be conducted "with facts, not hearsay and suspicion; with faith, not fear...