Word: revealing
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...been and continues to be the more traditionally "women's fields" like history and English which find cause to complain of a lack of qualified candidates. The Biology Department has tenured two women (Hubbard and Turner) while neither history nor English have tenured any. Yet, government statistics reveal that 20 per cent of recent Ph.Ds in history are held by women. According to the recommendation of a faculty committee chaired by Caroline Byrum and Michael Walzer in 1971, "If Harvard granted tenure to women equal to the percentage who received Ph.D's at the University ten years ago, women would...
...branches in Boston, help people who can pay the fee to improve their scores. Until recently, ETS refused to admit that coaching could improve scores on their tests, but with the recent release of a Federal Trade Commission Report, stating that coaching does indeed help, ETS is starting to reveal exam hints in its booklets. Critics claim that middle class students who can take advantage of test prep centers, or who go to private schools, have a distinct advantage, while poor people have no such help available...
...cool, critical analysis of these assumptions, however, might well reveal that far from axiomatic they are vulnerable on logical as well as pragmatic grounds. Without attempting such an analysis, let me point out a couple of glaring inconsistencies in our prevailing nuclear philosophy...
GASPAROVIC'S film raises many questions about animation and animators that even this two-hour festival cannot answer. Are these animators great artists? Certainly many of the drawings reveal the hand and eye of skilled painters. Yet many others do not appear to be more than moving New Yorker cartoons. If animation is art, why have no great artists attempted it? The possibilities seem extraordinary--a moving painting! The vitality in a work such as "Guernica" need not merely be conveyed but visually demonstrated...
That did not mean he stopped working. Remaining in Washington, D.C., he wrote his as yet unpublished memoirs, which may reveal some of the still untold workings of the high court. They may also expose his acerbic views of other Justices over the years. But then, a book that speaks freely and frankly would be a fitting Douglas legacy...