Word: intentionalism
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Motives for dissimulation took on many shadings, but the essential intent was to minimize friction during passage through an often abrasive society. To be nice, by some gentile measure, was more than a question of etiquette. It was a "sacred canon," Silberman says. Service to that canon became, in the words of Sociologist John Murray Cuddihy, "the ordeal of civility." Of all the problems faced by Jews since their earliest days in America--and Silberman covers most of them--the endless struggle over identity seems most fraught with anguish. Early arrivals in the new country found a society more tolerant...
...control-room plot is based on the concerns of veterans from the nuclear industry. Physicist Kenneth Bergeron, who spent most of 25 years at Sandia National Laboratories researching nuclear-reactor safety, says plant operators focus security efforts on keeping bad guys out. They assume that no one with malicious intent will wind up at the controls and thus do not build in fail-safe mechanisms that would prevent a saboteur from engineering a catastrophe. As a result, says Paul Blanch, a nuclear-safety expert who oversaw reactors for Northeast Utilities in Connecticut for 25 years, "a knowledgeable terrorist inside...
...some cases, even though we can see that a variety of circumstances contributed to a student’s error, and that it was without an intent to deceive, we may still hold the student responsible for the consequences of their actions,” O’Keefe writes...
...believe that the original intent of permitting student business activity was to acknowledge that the Internet had changed the landscape,” she wrote in an e-mail...
...Afro-American studies team, for devoting too much time toward non-academic pursuits, including several prominent left-wing political causes.) And Jacoby commended the University president for his opposition to the Israel divestment movement, which Summers suggested was “anti-Semitic in effect if not in intent...