Word: intuitionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The great paradox of modern linguistics is that while human judgments about the nature of language must be fundamentally introspective our intuitions are often misleading or simply wrong Percy is right when he says that closeness to language can be a bar to understanding it, that we think and talk...
Despite their confident use of statistics, graphs and maps to limn the future, city planners have no claim on prescience. They depend instead on an all too fallible blend of private intuition and public persuasion; theirs is not a profession for the timid. Most persuasive of them all, at least...
According to Winterbotham, Ultra's successes justified even Coventry. Tip-offs of enemy intent affected almost every phase of the war. During the Battle of Britain, Ultra's eavesdropping on Goring's scheme for using his 3-to-1 superiority in planes to "wipe the British Air...
When asked what he looked for when interviewing potential Harvard policemen, Tonis replied, "I really don't know. I just use my intuition. But neatness, a fair degree of intelligence, politeness--they're all extremely important."
In many ways, Peter Shaffer's meticulously crafted play helps to explain why London, not New York, remains the greater hub of theatrical activity. Shaffer is writing for an avid theatergoing public. "The English have a reverence for theater," he says. "They all want to be actors." Shaffer knows...