Word: smidgin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evasion. He appears to be lipreading his English, although the script seems to find the language just about as alien as Mastroianni does. The five scriptwriters who supposedly worked on the film must have spent enough time at the water-cooler to flood a camel. The only smidgin of plot is that Dunaway makes a late abortive attempt at suicide, something the film successfully achieves after about ten minutes...
...article "Intelligence: Is There a Racial Difference?" [April 11]: Most American Negroes are at least 60% Caucasoid, regardless of skin color. Anyone with even a smidgin of intelligence himself plus a knowledge of genetics and U.S. culture patterns (among them sex) would realize that after over 200 years with a negligible number of African immigrants to augment the gene pool, there could be very few if any "pure" Negroes here at this time...
Borgmann, a Chicago actuary, displayed his linguistic passion in an earlier book, Language on Vacation (TIME, Sept. 17, 1965). He likes to dream up puzzles based on Q words, paradoxes, homonyms, palindromes, anagrams, acronyms and acrostics, all of which require something more than a smidgin of esoteric knowledge. Explain this, he commands reading the same backward as forward - it is the short title of a dramat ic monologue, written in the late 1800s by a Portuguese eccentric named Baptista Machado...
...preclinical years cover normal and abnormal biology in a logical sequence. As an HMS-1, you study gross and microscopic anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry along with just a smidgin' of psychology. (Most aspiring psychiatrists feel cheated throughout their "undergraduate" years at the Medical School.) All of these courses demand your presence in long lectures and labs, two educational devices of questionable value in which Harvard has unending faith. Small-group instruction, when available, is usually effective; lectures, on the other hand, tend to obscure general principles of their subject and confuse students with welters of detail. In general, professors...