Word: skepticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feelings, when they approach such Goodwin articles as "The Multiplier as Matrix," ("in which I generalize Keynes' 'General Theory'"), or "Secular and Cyclical Aspects of the Multiplier and Accelerator." In vain they look for things familiar in a maze of matrices, mechanisms, and differential equations. The uninitiated must turn skeptic, or search not scattered passages written, for backward readers, in English...
Sacks & Bats. Though himself a skeptic, Diogène is finally undone by the imperatives. When he uses a variety of tricks to seduce Lourdes, the town of Saint Marc looks on with amused tolerance. After all, he is the local Don Juan. But when he refuses to acknowledge Lourdes's baby, her enraged mother, Zeline, pronounces a curse on him, and Saint Marc knows that trouble is ahead. Sure enough, a few days later, Diogène's wife comes down with a seizure, screaming, "I beg you, please get this sack off my head..." Everyone knows...
Stars in My Crown (MGM) nostalgically recalls life in a small Southern town at the turn of the century. Its rambling, episodic story, adapted by Joe David Brown from his own novel, follows the town parson (Joel McCrea) through a typhoid epidemic, a friendly joust with a local skeptic (the late Alan Hale), a feud with a young, unproven doctor (James Mitchell), a brush with the Ku Klux Klan on behalf of a Negro parishioner (Juano Hernandez...
...Collegiate Montaigne Society, devoted to the memory of that Greatest Skeptic of Them All, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, warmly agrees that scratching one's head is good for more in the modern world than the dandruff fingernail test...
...Philippines, which had offered 5,000 men to General MacArthur, 20 Congressmen resolved to go along with the troops as a committee. Then they read the fine print of their own resolution: they had agreed to go as combat infantrymen. Nobody backed out, but, a Congressional skeptic scoffed: "Half of them will surely flunk the physical exams...