Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Masters and Johnson report first came out in 1966, I remember my mother remarking that she never wanted to read it, because it destroyed all the romantic "mystery" of sex. Older and wiser now, I would argue that nowhere, and in matters of sex least of all, has ignorance proven a virtue. Knowledge of the physiology of female sexual response and of its relation to psychological characteristics is not an inhibition but a necessary liberation from erroneous expectations and constraining stereotypes...
...surprisingly, conventional economists have proven of more service in hiding the costs of the Vietnam War than in ending it; they have done better at explaining away poverty than in eradicating it. In their advisory roles, conventional economists have reflected the bias of their theories as as well as the political requirements of remaining "in favor" by at best accepting and more often justifying the institution of capitalism as the framework within which decisions are to be made...
Tutoring services for graduate school admissions tests have no proven value, Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Tests, said yesterday...
When that Defense job is filled, Nixon will have either a former member of his staff or a man of proven compatibility at or near the top of every Department except Labor...
Bennion said last night that the defense will again file a motion for the dismissal of the case today on the grounds that the government has not proven the charges of theft...