Word: skepticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turns out, he means it quite literally. The journalist escapes from the Jackson regime, and other residents of the hostel defect as well. But none can live without the church's comforting repression. All find their way back there quite soon, except the journalist, the eternal skeptic, who just has a good laugh about the whole thing. The Devil Is a Woman, however, makes a pretty flat cosmic joke...
...meditative disciplines," says Senior Editor Leon Jaroff, who edited the story and is well known as a skeptic, "TM is the one that seems to have really caught on. But there is still plenty of debate over the efficacy of TM as opposed to other methods...
...candy-box covers are made-is sobriety. Mrs. Marlow is an exactress who did not abandon drama when she left the stage. Yet her biography of Katharine (and inevitably, Parnell) weighs evidence with the scruples of a professional historian and character with the caution of a professional skeptic. The historian's fussing over documentation may be too detailed for any but devotees of failed crusades. But the skeptic's portrait of Parnell and Kitty has enough point to deflate the legend without ruining it, making the doomed lovers wholly credible to a modern reader...
...first post-trip briefing last week, on the SALT agreement, Nessen returned to the good graces of reporters. CBS'S Bob Pierpoint, a hard-nosed skeptic, said, "I thought it was the best briefing he has ever given. I think he's learned something"-summing up the feelings of many of the reporters present...
...Midwesterner accustomed to the bone-crushing that fills crisp fall afternoons at such institutions of higher learning as Ohio State and Notre Dame, I arrived in Cambridge a skeptic. Harvard football had always been swallowed up in that abyss known as "the East." To a diehard Fighting Irish fan tuning into the Prudential College Scoreboard, "the East" was nothing more than a boring prelude to the really important scores--usually a shellacking by a favorite topten power of some school mired in yet another rebuilding year...