Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that we have to temporarily dispose of reality to enjoy a fairy tale any more. Yet he returns to the present, and his cynical morality hits home. Kevin "wakes up" like Dorothy at the end and sees Sean Connery as a fireman (like her scarecrow). But he has uncontrovertible proof that Connery was Agamemnon; and his parents are just as oblivious as ever. Thus, he must conclude the opposite from Dorothy: He could not have been dreaming, and there are most assuredly places far superior to home...
...member of Harvard's admissions committee. Whitla, who has enjoyed periodic research support from ETS, made a statement in 1962 that Slack and Porter now take pleasure in quoting: "If this thesis [that SAT scores can be increased by an intensive tutoring program] were to be proved true, its proof would challenge the validity and essential purposes for which the test was constructed." Today, Whitla says, Harvard is continuing its standard practice of review and reevaluation; but despite criticism, the SAT is still considered a "fair judge of intellectual abilities." Ian Hodos, associate director of admissions at New Jersey...
...dispel the glow. As part of his budget-cutting efforts, Reagan has proposed dismantling the U.S. Department of Energy that was set up four years ago as a watchdog of the nation's energy supplies. Meanwhile, widespread chatter about a worldwide oil "glut" has further calmed nerves, and proof of abundant supplies has been readily at hand at the gasoline pump, where prices have actually been falling...
...unusual motivation for running: He is a Jew, and wants to counter anti-Semitism with an Olympic victory. While Liddell races for love, Abrahams races for hate; Liddell's gift is natural, an inspiration, but Abrahams must work hard to win. In a facile attempt to provide concrete visual proof of Abrahams' Judaism, director Hugh Hudson cast Cross, whose dark complexion and hooked nose reflect the stereotypical conception of a Jew. The problems don't end there; Cross badly overacts. It is the desire to show' em all that lends fire to his eye and wings to his feet, granted...
mostly variations on the seven deadly sins. Gossip is a safe way of sorting out this amoral brawl. It is a form of improvisational daydreaming. "Both the virtue and vice of gossip," write Sabini and Silver, "is that one doesn't confront accusers, or demand proof...