Word: rigorousity
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After a protracted controversy, McArthur and his assistant, Louis Norris, agreed to resign at Berman's request. Berman declared the debate "a closed issue," but he also proposed new policy guidelines that emphasize "serious, intellectual, disciplined study." The guidelines declare that the endowment "is not interested in random speculation...
The pioneer in these experiments is Britain's Open University. Launched by the Labor government in 1969, Open University now has 35,000 housewives, truck drivers and even soldiers studying toward bachelor's degrees in various fields of science and the arts. It has no formal entrance requirements...
None of this makes any kind of sense except comic sense. Ebulliently acted, beautifully scored (by Jack Nitzsche), memorably photographed on location in New Mexico, Greaser's Palace has an unrestrained, nutball appeal that is also, finally, its undoing. Downey always goes for a laugh instead of a point...
Reaction in Moscow was mixed -and often heated. Some intellectuals felt that Brodsky's letter strikingly underlined the contrast between the harshness of official policy and the moderate, reasoning attitude of some Soviet writers. But many were angry. Said one dissident: "One simply doesn't write such letters...
Sociologists and students of religion will be studying and arguing over the survey's findings (and some of its admitted inconsistencies) for years. Already the study seems to give the lie to one cherished American cliché-that sincerity, not content, is the test of belief. If the findings...