Word: vaguest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...century ardor, seemed to exist in a rapport with nature usually thought of in connection with the highest days of Greece. His sculpture is at once sophisticated and naive. In this sense it represents civilized man at his most refined and inspired, completely without artifice and without the vaguest notion of what corruption is all about...
This hectic scramble for the best sophomores assumes in its later stages the proportions of a minor farce. The punchees, for the most part, have only the vaguest notion of what the Clubs are all about and whether they have any committment to the Club after being wined and dined at such length; it seems bad form to ask. The club members are thus usually uncertain of the punchee's intentions to join; to inquire point-blank would be unattractively crass. And so, suitor and maiden, both blissfully shy, muddle through an awkward affair until the night of "final dinners...
...under- stand what was unique about science, because they were on the inside looking out, and saw the humanities and the social sciences as ineffective forms of empirical naturalism. Meanwhile the Humanities attempted to subsume the sciences instead of admitting them as an alternative, and this with only the vaguest understading of what the sciences were really...
...essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea what Hume really said, or in fact what he said it in, or in fact if he ever said anything. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue, virtually without contradiction...
...School of Arts and Sciences possess Harvard degrees, very few of those who eventually act as tutors have had previous experience with the program at all. Except for an occasional Harvard graduate who picked up some of the technique from his undergraduate tutor, the teaching fellow has only the vaguest idea what he is doing...