Word: jointedness
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What Monro calls the "loose-jointed" nature of the program may be the reason why greater coordination has not been reached. The advisors cling to their autonomy in the Houses, Prout explains, and Prout himself, according to Michael A. Savin '65, president of the Harvard Radcliffe Pre-Medical Society, is...
Prophets have always been vulnerable to easy satire, especially today. Questions about meaning are necessarily associated with holistic, loose-jointed ideas; and such ideas usually find the methodological rigors of the old empirical trail pretty rough.
Hold Out! Hold Out! A general takes a patriotic view. He wants to enlist -THEM in the cold war. "We've got to make contact," he says. "Bring them in on our side. If they shared with us, told us all they knew . . . we'd be unbeatable." A...
The 19 stories in this collection are so many small tragedies. Far from being mere slices of life, or glimpses of fantasy or of psychological freaks, they demonstrate once again that the short story is not only for light jugglery. The publishers invoke the names of Mary McCarthy and Simone...
Shifting metaphor, James adopted the language of the hydraulic engineer in his discussion of consciousness. He decried the practice of chopping consciousness into supposed "single ideas" with which the investigator really had no immediate acquaintance. Chains, trains, or other compounding of bits seemed inadequate as models. Consciousness is nothing jointed...