Word: opinionizing
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...University President Lawrence H. Summers said he was excited the initiative would make Harvard’s collections easier to search and more widely accessible, and the head of Oxford University has said that the project may be as significant as the printing press. But not all shared this opinion...
...this vernacular habit? Benjamin Franklin called it “modest diffidence,” advising orators to avoid “the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any others that give the air of positiveness to an opinion; but rather say, I conceive or apprehend a thing to be so and so; it appears to me, or I should think it so or so, for such and such reasons; or I imagine it to be so; or it is so, if I am not mistaken.” A spoonful of humility, Franklin argued, helps the assertion go down...
...you” and “if my reading of the data is right” and “I would like nothing better than to be proved wrong.” Yet many of those who heard the talk pointed out Summers was still stating his opinion, no matter how often he qualified...
HUDS has tried to incorporate student opinion into its dining decisions. This was the first year that students could vote for a festive meal and they selected a ’50s diner theme...
...doing, students say, Matory made his low opinion of Summers clear by drawing connections to his own scholarly views...