Word: questioningly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House reporters, sensing Carter's feeling that his message was not getting through, asked a sharp question: "What bugs you about the Washington press corps?" Somewhat sarcastically, Carter answered that he had no dispute with such "a group of superbly qualified, highly objective, extremely intelligent analysts," but he added that he planned to "let my voice be heard and felt . . . from various places in the country." This week the new campaign of hard-selling will take him to Bardstown, Ky., and more trips are being planned...
...reason for opposition? According to Robert Cameron, testing director of the College Board: "We do not have an inexhaustible supply of new questions." ETS spends two years preparing each version of its 145-question SAT; some 21 different versions of the SAT are used annually. As long as copies of the test are hidden away in the files of ETS, they can be reused for approximately three years. "But," notes Cameron, "once you disclose a test, it must be discarded." New York's new law will force makers of standardized tests to offer new examinations throughout...
Though doctors have long used placebos to appease patients eager for a drug, even when none is indicated, the practice has lately come under question, most recently in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association. At a time when patients are demanding more candor, many physicians are asking themselves whether they should prescribe deceptively. Other doubts have also been raised. In a study of 60 physicians and 39 nurses at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Drs. James and Jean Goodwin and Albert Vogel found that the majority gave placebos to patients they disliked, considered...
...light in Arikha's paintings is dry and chalky. It conveys a sense of frugality, but with no question of expressionist pathos. His motifs are not actors in a drama of pathetic fallacy, but resistant fragments of the world, the nonself. But what is so gripping about his work is the in tensity with which Arikha engages that world. He speaks of the "hunger in the eye" that drew him away from abstract painting in 1965, and kept him doing nothing but black-and-white brush drawings and etchings from life for eight years. In his paintings since...
...pass that question for the moment and ask what went right. There is a lovely moment when the bearded, black-suited Wilder, who has just been beaten and robbed, sees some Amish farmers, mistakes them for Jews and rushes toward them, rejoicing at the top of his voice in Yiddish. Another piece of superior nuttiness has Wilder trying, and utterly failing, to suppress his gabby, questioning nature at supper among the silent monks of a Trappist monastery...