Word: suspicions
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Beyond its internal inconsistencies and contradiction of all major scientific theories, Sheldrake's grasp of his own scientific inheritance is so tenuous as to cast suspicion on his hypothesis. The entire first third of The Presence of the Past, and much of the rest of the work, is an idiosyncratic intellectual history of science, from which Sheldrake picks or reinterprets as he wishes. There are times when he misrepresents the facts, and times when he gets them wrong. For example, his statement that memory is not at all localizable in the brain--evidence to Sheldrake that...
...runs before an anxious crowd of 52,000 onlookers at Canada Olympic Park, Matti "Nukes" produced nearly identical jumps of 294 ft. That gave him an astonishing 17-point margin over Ploc, who scored closer to the tenth-place jumper than he did to Nykanen. It confirmed the suspicion that % there are two classes of jumpers in the world today: Nykanen and everyone else. Said his coach, Matti Pulli: "He is the best jumper in the past 100 years, the best ever in the world." The coach then added matter-of-factly, "Matti was jumping normally today, nothing more than...
...addressed extensively at the department level without full understanding of the impact on other departments and programs. Moreover, the process and criteria for assigning faculty positions and fellowships, determining workload (or other conditions of employment), sabbatical policy and like matters seem to be unduly mysterious, leading to unhealthy suspicion and cynicism...
...countries hostile to the U.S., particularly the Soviet Union." Fortunately, most librarians found the request to be a ludicrous and flagrant violation of the right to privacy and flatly refused to cooperate. As the director of the New York Library Association asked, "Does anyone with an accent come under suspicion...
...obsession. The last is at the core of a novel that otherwise breaks new ground for him. Imago (Penzler; 244 pages; $16.95) is a mystery that offers no real mystery, no official detective, no police action of consequence and no crime -- yet is flavored with an authentic elixir of suspicion and dread. The central character is a radiologist caught up in what his psychiatrist colleagues would label a mid-life crisis: thunderstruck by the nubile daughter of old friends, he undertakes a frenzied search for signs of reciprocity. The result is either hysteria or someone's genuine plot to drive...