Word: indexers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...investigations are disturbing, because Merit, which has done most of the research, has a very doubtful judgment about the purposes of college. To measure the "productivity" of a college, for example, they rely on the so-called Knapp-Greenbaum index: the percentage of graduates of that college who go on to get a Ph.D. The Merit people apparently had some reservations about this index--not, however, because they think that colleges might "produce" something other than scholars, nor because they think it might be unwise for a college to lure all its students into scholarship...
They simply recognized that the Knapp-Greenbaum index did not distinguish between the effects of the college and the quality of the students who came to the college; and so, confident that the qualities of a college could be separated from the quality of the student body, an NMSC worthy named Thistlethwaite devised the Talent Supply Index, which measures the calibre of students--a college's TSI is the average freshman's score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test...
...lips slightly parted as if he were about to speak. A smirking, sharp-nosed woman may have been the farmer's wife, but whatever her identity, she had an extravagant taste for finery. She wears two sculpted necklaces, bracelets on both arms, large round earrings, rings on both index fingers, another on the fourth finger of the left hand, and a second thick band on the left index finger just above the first joint. All the other figures are of young men and women, whose funerary statues may have been made years before their deaths...
Television ratings are not necessarily a reliable index to political popularity, but Tory politicians are still busy reading implications into Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's latest TV appearance. When Mac started to talk, he had an audience of nearly 8,000,000, according to the British equivalent of a Nielsen survey, but by the time he had finished his 15-minute address, more than 1,000,000 viewers had switched off their sets. With syrupy platitudes, the Prime Minister glossed over difficulties and blurred issues, failed to spell out forcefully what his policies would really mean to Britain...
Father Lombardi's book, which received the approval of his Jesuit superior and an imprimatur from a local auxiliary bishop, has not been ordered withdrawn from print. But Vatican officials agreed that only placement on the Index could have been a sterner rebuke. Murmuring that his book was only the opinion of a "simple priest," Father Lombardi affirmed his loyalty to the church and retired to silence. Said one Vatican cleric: "Only the Pope is God's microphone...