Word: pointed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whoring after formalism- these mathematical models are a case in point. It seems to serve much like a philosopher's stone, and leads people to forget about the phenomena themselves in their concern with elegant systems and whether they can fit into them. Then there is all this interest in theory building. As X put it the other day, there is so much regard for being critical and for rigorous theory we may be preventing, or at least not rewarding, people for creating ideas at a fairly low level...
...radical today would say that the CFIA unconsciously disregards the big questions because of a preoccupation with, for example, game theory. Most would say that game theory is at once a way of aiding American foreign policy, as well as providing a mask for that aid. The point here is, however, that some behavioral scientists in 1954 sensed something wrong with the new scientific method, and wanted time to investigate its long-term perspectives. They did not for a minute doubt U.S. goals, but they realized that social science was becoming a whore...
...Madison Square Garden in the 1920's. Stomp in and drink with the hardnose people, put THEIR story in print, and show what sports is really like. Not any of the old clean-cut student athlete who dates the local cheerleader stuff. I mean real seamy material-brawls, bookies, point-shaving...
...terrible" the girl asked me hopefully. I belched, and had to admit that she had a point. "Damn right, damn right," I said, and slipped off to order two more burgers and another pitcher of beer...
...Crimson sailors were tied for second, and only one point out of first, after the first day of competition in the 44-foot yawls. Captain Abbott Reeve said that mechanical failures were one reason for Harvard's drop to third on the second...