Word: answer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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This article is designed to explain how to achieve the third answer to this perplexing problem by the use of the vague generality, the artful equivocation, and the overpowering assumption. Since examination period is almost over, we feel sure that it will be of little use to most readers...
...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier typical examination question, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" The equivocator would answer it this way: "Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of conditions around him, colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived...
...nobody paid much attention to the color of Ben's skin. The day after Pearl Harbor, Kuroki enlisted. On the train to camp, he heard for the first time what became an agonizingly familiar question: "What's that Jap doing in the Army?" To answer it, Japanese-American Ben Kuroki volunteered as an Air Force gunner...
...Artists Equity Association wishes to go on record in commending the present attitude of the Metropolitan Museum of Art toward contemporary artists." This back pat, sent to Manhattan newspapers his week, was an answer to a blast at the Met signed by 28 advanced abstractionists a fortnight ago (TIME, June 5). The protesting avant-garde artists had felt sure hat the Met's jumbo, jury-selected show contemporary U.S. art scheduled for December would exclude most abstract tainting of the sort they favored. If Artists Equity agreed with that supposition, t didn't seem to care. The organization...
...memos ranged from a pep talk on meeting the threat of television ("Quality is the only answer") to a query on a line of dialogue ("Can we get by with the word 'louse'? I thought it was taboo"). One memo noted that the titles in a trailer for a new movie were a "trifle too lurid." Another instructed a producer shooting in London not to use fog in any more scenes, "as it is very uneven." Still another suggested putting a new writer on a story in preparation: "It would be a four-or five-week...