Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...largely anonymous-Establishment. To an insular nation like Japan, where xenophobia is never far beneath the surface, the psychological alternative to the haven of a steady alliance is a return to defiant self-reliance. Sometimes they fear that, inadvertently, you may be pushing them in this direction. Already, they suspect that you regard the U.S.-Japan security treaty more as a means of containing Japan than China and the Soviet Union...
...federal self-report card has some huge gaps. For one thing, it did not measure how productive-or unproductive-Government employees were at the beginning of the four-year period. Many taxpayers may suspect that federal agencies can improve their productivity by considerably more than 2% a year and still remain something less than models of efficiency. Also, the task force made no attempt to assess what has caused the rise in output per man-hour. Government officials speculate only that the ever-present specter of budget cuts and hold-downs has forced federal managers to figure out their...
...least, this refusal to acknowledge one's comments leads the student to suspect a lack of confidence on the part of the reader. It also tends to underline what may be defined as a general feeling among the undergraduate body, which is that faculty, especially professors, would rather not spend time discussing undergraduate work. Obviously there are many exceptions to this feeling, and rightfully so. And even if there weren't it cannot be denied that the time of senior faculty members is precious. However, I believe it is not asking too much to be granted a fifteen or twenty...
...book is not without drawbacks. Its price is prohibitive for any woman who is neither a librarian nor fabulously wealthy. The editors have neglected to include an index of contributing biographers, thus preventing easy cross-reference or any evaluation of the balance of male and female scholars, (though I suspect the latter were a bit slighted). And I caught a few shocking bits of biased male scholarship, like "Emily Dickinson was extremely feminine in her aversion to intellectual abstraction and speculative argument." Sometimes the biographers are also annoying in their effort to bestow superlatives: the greatest writer or actress...
...investigators were villains, or course, but more than that victims of their own ignorance, their perverted notions of freedom and patriotism, their lack of understanding. Witness this exchange from 1938, between a suspect and a member of the HUAC...