Word: intuitionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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His intuition and polling experience tell him that the much-heralded national shift to the right may prove more ephemeral than Republican politicians hope. Democrats, Barone says, will be able to use the Social Security issue to particular advantage in the 1982 Congressional elections. "When people start thinking about getting...
But a statesman must never be viewed as starry-eyed. He must have vision and depth; he must also translate his intuition into reality against sometimes resistant material. Sadat was neither starry-eyed nor soft. He was not a pacifist. He did not believe in peace at any price. I...
"All across the country people in the health fields have to decide where to cut back and where to switch money around," Roberts said, adding that the new center will focus on techniques for evaluating the cutbacks' effects "explicitly and numerically" instead of "using intuition and prejudice."
Goodfield's second romantic image is revealed by her quoting the aphorism of Rousseau "Hypotheses are the revelation of genius." For Goodfield, pure ideas and intuition are the stuff of research, the rest is technical, petty, routine and boring. But the refrain "ideas are cheap" is quite common in labs...
That is the premise of Death in a Tenured Position, the latest mystery by Amanda Cross. For the uninitiated. Cross novels feature the redoubtable Kate Fansler, a tenured 16th-century English literature professor at a New York City university, much like Columbia. Fortyish, WASPish, with a casual marriage to an...