Word: mossbacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First there is the system of disagreeing totally with tea instructor and his approach to the course. If we are dealing with a liberal professor, the correctly composed exam for the virtually uninformed should sound like the outraged bellows of the mossback, while the exam written for a conservative lecturer should do justice to the thinking of any red-eyed radical. Total disagreement is an effective exam technique for two reasons: 1. It requires far less information to write a general polemic against an entire policy than it does to criticize specific weaknesses in that policy. For in the latter...
...year-old veteran and not a wealthy old mossback, as "they" try to paint all Taft supporters...