Word: intuitionism
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Though the mean's characteristic, it may not be fair. Occasionally I've been surprised to find a required class with a bad reputation quite enjoyable. The problem is not that bad reputations are acquired too hastily and good ones take time--nothing is so easy. Instead it seems that...
There are cases all around us of individuals speaking for groups and of groups coming to the consensus of individuals. Consider the stand the E.U. is taking against Austria and the dominos that have fallen since the U.S. ambassador withdrew. I don't mean to hold argumentative, individualist logic on...
More important, he serves as a symbol of all the scientists--such as Heisenberg, Bohr, Richard Feynman and Stephen Hawking, even the ones he disagreed with--who built upon his work to decipher and harness the forces of the cosmos. As James Gleick wrote earlier this year in the TIME...
PROTECTING THE GIFT: KEEPING CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS SAFE (AND PARENTS SANE) By Gavin de Becker (Dial Press) Trust your intuition. That's the message from De Becker, who advises the rich and famous from Hollywood to Washington on security matters. But parents don't need to be celebrities to benefit...
Buckley's judgment is more complex in The Redhunter, an ingeniously symmetrical drama of the origins and psychology of communism and anticommunism. He has invented a young alter ego, Harry Bontecou, who goes to work for Joe McCarthy (an only lightly novelized version of the real Senator) and turns out...