Word: skepticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...specific gravity of Irene Worth's mode of delivery banishes frivolity and inspires conviction, as does the work of Constance Cummings and Donal Donnelly. Mrs. St. Maugham may not have been named that for nothing since The Chalk Garden measures human character with Maugham's skeptic...
...transferable skills." Ainslie disagrees: "While most people over 30 are somewhat intimidated by computers," he says, "the younger game players accept them as tools to be used, to be taken for granted, to be enjoyed. They are better prepared than we are for the computer revolution." Skow, a cheerful skeptic, refuses to endow the phenomenon with any cosmic significance at all. His view: "It's just another manifestation of human mania, our endearing quality of going relentlessly after absolutely pointless goals...
Match point. Harvard's no,1 player Howard Sands '83 underwent customary Prince growing pains two years ago. Already an established top tenner in junior tennis, Sands wanted to build his serve and volley game. But Sands, a skeptic after two weeks of using the Prince, wanted no part of gimmick. However, Sands stuck out the four-week trial period. Needless to say the story goes, Sands stayed with prince both story goes, Sands stayed with Prince, both story goes, Sands stayed with Prince, both to his and Prince's benefit. Sands, an All American, recently placed...
...bend spoons with the power of his mind. In a dazzling chapter, Gardner, an amateur prestidigitator, demonstrates a dozen methods for deceiving the credulous, including sleight of hand, palmed magnets and misdirection. Yet even these instructions are offered more in fun than in malice. For early on, the skeptic's skeptic acknowledges that the most obvious evidence of fraud will not budge the True Believer. Instead, Gardner writes for those who agree with the 1920s observation of H.L. Mencken that one horselaugh was worth 10,000 syllogisms. As Science: Good, Bad and Bogus proves, it still is. -By Frederic...
...letter of 1745 in which the distinctly anticlerical skeptic Voltaire, praising a book written by Pope Benedict XIV, writes "allow me very humbly to kiss your holy feet and to ask with the deepest respect your benediction...