Word: randomness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth. 274 pages. Random House...
...examine the facts presented to us as a result of Mr. Bowle's survey. First, he says that "The sample is sufficiently large to establish its main conclusions." In the first place, let me point out that this class is not a random sample of Harvard students--even less so than other classes because of its politically oriented topic. Therefore, any claims that the 163 students of Soc Sci 125 stand for "Harvard" are questionable, to say the least...
...fated to be "a dead hand on industry" and ought to be abolished. Another criticism came last month from the Department of Transportation, which, in a study of rail-merger patterns, scolded the commission for paying scant attention to broad economic questions and for rubber-stamping in "a rather random manner" individual mergers as they come along...
SETTING FREE THE BEARS by John Irving. 335 pages. Random House...
...HAPPENED IN BOSTON? by Russell H. Greenan. 273 pages. Random House...