Word: intuitionism
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Even when McPhee looks at professions filled with special men, he manages to find the most detached examples for his observation. Early in career, he profiled Dollar Bill Bradley, one of the four or five greatest college basketball players of all time. A decent man, a hard-working man, a...
Archer, who teaches at the University of California at Santa Cruz, gave his own S.I. tests to 2,400 men and women. They were asked multiple-choice questions about the status or relationship of people in a series of photographs like those on this page. Archer says that his subjects...
The Eisenhower-Reagan comparison is an interesting and almost subliminal effect now forming in the American psyche. It has gone largely unexamined. It is an intuition, a form of anticipatory nostalgia. It may also be an exercise in hopeful self-deception.
As in 1976, Brown is trying to tout himself as the anti-politics politician, describing his dark horse campaign as a "frontal attack on the conventional wisdom of a dying political party." Since the time he "limited lobbyist spending to two hamburgers and a coke" as California secretary of state...
Diesel may not be the way to go. Given the high aromatic content of diesel fuel and its propensity for creating particulates, chemical intuition suggests that it would be surprising if diesel exhaust did not contain appreciable amounts of first-rate carcinogens. As a professor of physical chemistry, I for...