Word: questionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article implies that Arab governments cannot oppose the will of their peoples. This smacks of sophistry since the will in question is largely a product of the 100% government-controlled news media. Were these media to preach peace rather than hate, it is highly probable that public opinion would change...
...Question of Priorities...
...authorities as Science Editor Philip Abelson as a "moondoggle," by a congressional critic as a "garish spectacular." Indeed, considering the proliferation of terrestrial problems-poverty, ignorance, racism, the decay of the cities, the rape of the environment, the deepening chasm between affluent and backward nations-it is easy to question the wisdom of spending billions to escape the troubled planet...
Short Tests. To formulate such a theory, admits Gajdusek, is to call into question much of the traditional thinking of virologists. Generations of researchers have been accustomed to thinking of viruses as microbes that behave somewhat predictably. Typically, as in the case of measles, German measles, chicken pox, the common cold and influenza-of the Hong Kong variety, or whatever-they seem to appear from nowhere, spend a few days, or at most two or three weeks, incubating in the victim's body, then cause a brief, feverish illness...
...Such explanations, so necessary to the conception of a novel as story, in fact lessen the impact of a as an object of pop art. In good pop art, the content should be so obvious and blatant that accompanying descriptions are unnecessary. There should be no question of thinking, only of feeling, in much the same way that one senses the flickering of television images or campfire flames. In a, what small sensual pleasure might have been offered in allowing the eye and the mind's ear to skid passively over the letters and words is reduced...