Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard Nixon's aides were cultivating a long-range historical view of the Supreme Court last week. After all, they said in quiet self-commiseration, the Senate quarreled for four months in 1916 before confirming Louis Brandeis' nomination-and whatever the cavils raised at the time, Brandeis went on to a long, distinguished career on the bench...
...students separately enter a room and take facing seats at a table. But neither knows the other is there; an opaque screen three feet high stands between them, obscuring the view. All that each student has been told is that he will meet someone and be expected to carry on a conversation with him. All that is known about the students, as the result of previous psychological testing, is that one is more dominant a personality than the other. Abruptly, the screen is lifted, and the students confront each other across the table. Will the dominant or the submissive...
...present-day computer, has required a mental effort to exploit it. It has therefore exerted a selective pressure against the less intelligent. This pressure has been responsible for the evolutionary improvement of the human species throughout time." Indeed, evolutionary chance rather than human design accounts, in Darlington's view, for the entire spectrum of human intellectual progress. One example he gives is the celibacy of Roman Catholicism, a medieval practice. By preventing the inbreeding that this ruling class might otherwise have practiced, it compelled the steady recruitment of hybrids into the church, in a diversity as wide and invigorating...
Spurious Scale. Darlington's colleagues will certainly quarrel with his view of history, as he himself cheerfully admits. "I represent an extreme minority view," he says. "I'm trying to overcome the idea that heredity doesn't matter, that all behavior is social, that it's the result of education-the whole general humbug." Like controversial Psychologist Arthur Jensen (TIME, April 11), he is astonished at the willingness of educators to assume that all their students arrive in class with approximately equal intellectual endowments. Any test of this, in his opinion, invariably demolishes the assumption. "Some...
...British view, a merger between BP and Sohio is as logical a combination as prosciutto and melon. The North Slope strike and the Sinclair acquisition, says BP Chairman Eric Drake, left BP "with an oilfield at one end of the country, a market at the other, and Sohio in the middle." Sohio, which has some 3,500 gas stations in the Midwest, is renowned for its refining and marketing organization, but it has not had access to enough crude oil to permit expansion. So the companies .agreed to have Sohio take over BP's U.S. marketing, with BP supplying...