Word: suggestion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says so right in the Constitution, and believe me, I love the Constitution (some of my best friends are amendments, you know)--you might ask if this isn't the formulation of a somewhat different stance. Some--and I'm not going to name any names--might even suggest that we're experiencing a situation brought about by a shortfall of morals. Well, let's be honest. Let's face the facts. As you know, before this administration took office, the so-called New Morality swept the nation. I don't think I have to go into the sordid details...
...college teacher, I can suggest a reason for the downward trend in Scholastic Aptitude Tests scores overlooked in the article [Dec. 31]. It is the pervasive narcissism of our contemporary culture that deflects today's capable youth from mastering the accumulated knowledge of the past, which is the province of higher education. Scholastic aptitude is not aptitude for finding "the real me" in sensitivity to adolescent angst, or in self-serving activism for student rights. Since these are the major concern of brighter young people today, is it any wonder that traditional measurements reflect what they...
...type of treatment they suggest in the book Violence and the Brain published in 1970 included localizing areas of brain dysfunction with the use of electrodes and EEG recordings and then destroying small areas of cells. They claim only to have experimented on diseased individuals...
...that many of the graduate students, particularly those in the first year, are terribly unhappy with the academic program. Listening to the discourse of the Graduate Economics Club, one gets the idea that this is due primarily to the lack of radical economics course offerings. I would like to suggest that more fundamental reasons for the malaise are a) the teaching is often of poor quality, and b) there is no evidence that the department cares about the students. It is easy for a prospective economist to become disgusted with the poorly taught neoclassical theory and to look for some...
These episodes suggest that Serpico is too driven to maintain a decent emotional relationship, so confused and compulsive that he revels in the chance to assume fresh identities with every dis guise. Such subtleties, however, are drowned out in the prevailing frenzy of Sidney Lumet's direction, and by the musical score of Mikis Theodorakis, which sounds like a patchwork of his music from Z and a concert of favorite folk songs by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association Band...