Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Your informative account of the current cholera epidemic-not yet, mercifully, a "pandemic" [Aug. 31]-would have been still more informative if you had not been so nasty-nice-Nellie in talking about "waste-contaminated water supplies." I know you can't use the usual four-letter word-though what's wrong with "dung"? But the fact is that cholera bacilli multiply only in human (not animal) intestines. To carry cholera, water supplies must be contaminated by human fecal matter, or, if you prefer another bowdlerism, human excrement. If man would stop drinking and washing in the water...
...Only by using threats could the two men get through to their wounded colleagues. "I really didn't feel very much then," Messaros says. "I let out a couple of screams to let off the pressure. Yesterday, three more cops got hit. I read the first account of it this morning and all of a sudden I started to cry like a baby...
...Philanthropist, produced by the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theater, opens literally with a bang. A young playwright blows his brains out in the lodgings of a philologist. Then it settles down into a satirical, searching account of the philologist's quest for some spiritual anagram for happiness. Such ups and downs occur throughout the play. The ups are sufficiently impressive that it is hard to believe that the author, Christopher Hampton, is only 24. Yet it remains for a leading actor, Alec McCowen, to lift the production as a whole onto a plane of compelling theater...
...flaws of any intelligence test is that it does not, and cannot, take into account the mood of the person whose intellect is being evaluated. Educational psychologists have long known that attitude can have a pronounced effect on the score. The same person, retested, may raise or lower his IQ by as many as 20 points depending on how he feels-challenged, anxious, bored. Even his feelings toward the person giving the test can be a factor. In the case of the black student, writes British Psychologist Peter Watson in New Society magazine, this variation is of great significance...
...excelled at flipping trading cards bought by the fistful down at Irving's Candy Store. "There were Smilin' Jack cards, baseball cards, World War II cards with General MacArthur and the bombing of Tokyo on them," he recalls fondly. But mastery of card flipping and having his own charge account at Irving's were not enough. Gould was terribly conscious of "a degree of vulnerability, of not wanting to make a fool of myself. I didn't feel abnormal, but I certainly didn't feel normal...