Word: rebutting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from members of a group formed last year: the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. Composed of 43 scientists, science journalists, educators and magicians (who can best spot the sleight-of-hand and other tricks used by psychics), the committee's goal is to rebut what Author Charles Fair calls "the New Nonsense." Headed by Paul Kurtz, a philosophy professor at the State University of New York in Buffalo, the committee includes such luminaries as Astronomer Carl Sagan, Psychologist B.F. Skinner, Philosopher Sidney Hook, Author Isaac Asimov...
...their own sexual pleasure, attacks sexual intercourse for "institutionalizing out" women's needs, urges men to give up orgasms altogether, and suggests that women who reject lesbian love are selling out to the male oppressors. Pietropinto's response: a quickie sex survey on men, intended both to rebut Kite's book on women and preempt her sequel on men, due next spring. Like Hite, Pietropinto finds what he was looking for. Beyond the Male Myth, co-authored with his agent Jacqueline Simenauer, reports-apparently without tongue in cheek-that men are sensitive creatures, intensely concerned with female...
Bert Lance was summoned last week for what was supposed to be an unpublicized interrogation by Comptroller of the Currency John Heimann, who is investigating loans the budget director has received. After the hour-long session, Lance hastily called a press conference to reveal-and rebut-new questions Heimann had raised about a $2.6 million loan to Lance by New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust in April 1975, soon after he became president of the National Bank of Georgia. The big question is whether Lance got the credit as an improper quid pro quo for having his NBG place...
...Alan Middleton, is the typical half-blind, half-dead reservation Indian. The best of all, however, is the wild savage Yellow Feather, Adam Ramirez, who lusts after the white flesh of our Little Mary. By giving Besoyan's characters the right amount of schmaltz, the Sunshine Indians help rebut the John Wayne school of frontier history...
...recalls that he began to doubt the right-wing, pro-war legacy of his upbringing during his freshman year, when Sen Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) journeyed to Boston to defend the American Vietnam policy. "I went and listened to it perfectly confident that he would have reasons to rebut all the criticism of the war, and he didn't. He never really answered any of the questions. That was a real shock...