Word: retort
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...respect for David Reisman not withstanding, I answered in true Harvard fashion that such an effect was not difficult to obtain. Such a retort in a Harvard setting would be considered fair play, a verbal means of keeping one's own balance by staying out of the magnetic attraction of a world-renowned intellectual presence. How many times have Harvard students walked through the streets around Harvard Square without seeing such figures as James Baldwin, J.K. Galbraith, Eric Erikson, Edmund Wilson, James Dickey, Robert P. Warren, Norman Mailer, to name only those whom I have personally seen. These men seem...
There are bound to be problems in recruiting supervisors. As one indignant woman pointed out to Peyret, "Can you imagine a man hugging his children, embracing his wife and then saying to her, 'Darling, I must be off to my bordello'?" Peyret's retort: "I see no incompatibility between such a civil servant's job and his personal life. A doctor sees a lot of naked women but that doesn't mean he rapes any of them." Peyret should know. He has been a country doctor for 20 years...
...production, jobs, income and investment in future growth. These economists contend that presidential guidelines on wage-price increases would have achieved success sooner and that, in order to revive the economy, the Government can afford now to spend more and expand the money supply even faster. Nixon men retort that both the braking of inflation and the economic revival could only be accomplished gradually. As Election Day nears, voters will hear more such arguments...
...large proportion of union members labor in aged factories. The very nature of the work remains the worst problem. Auto managers concede that most assembly jobs are hard and boring, but they figure that little can be done about it. Managers commonly complain about shoddy workmanship. Union members vehemently retort that the line moves too fast for them to do as good a job as they would like...
...disputing Blanchard's claims, critics argue that lead from car exhausts is indeed a serious problem. Dr. Henry A. Schroeder of Dartmouth Medical School last week cited lead and other heavy metals among the major killers in the rogues' gallery of polluting agents. Blanchard's retort is that the amount of lead absorbed by the body is only the equivalent of "one BB shot of lead inhaled by one man over a period of 70 years...