Word: randomness
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...WILL DO by Richard Condon. 31 1 pages. Random House...
There is no more reason for PBK to be bound by the sum of random variables numerically coded on a transcript than there is for the admissions committee of Harvard College to be bound by its applicants' high school grades and College Board scores. Grades, whether of course work, generals, or theses, are humanly devised estimates of human performances, and are therefore themselves always subject to further human evaluation...
Another plus for Random House, except for the most fastidious word worriers, is that its computer-compiled definitions are relatively concise. It first defines anthropomorphic as "ascribing human form or attributes to a being or thing not human, esp. to a deity." Webster's repetitiously expands this to "described or conceived in a human form or with human attributes: represented with human characteristics or under a human form: ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman things: crudely human or man-centered in character...
...KEYNES by Robert Lekachman. 324 pages. Random House...
...forces demands the potential sacrifice of the soldier on the battlefield: his very life. But there is a simple and obvoius remedy for this defect. Each month the percentage of war deaths should be determined, and this proportion of men engaged in nonmilitary national service should be selected at random and shot. Paul R. Chernoff...