Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...COLLECTED STORIES (381 pp.]-Isaac Babel-Criterion Books...
...Easy Out. Siding with the psychiatrists, the court reasoned: "As an exclusive criterion the right-wrong test is inadequate in that a) it does not take sufficient account of psychic realities and scientific knowledge, and b) it is based upon one symptom and so cannot validly be applied in all circumstances . . . The 'irresistible impulse' test is also inadequate, in that it gives no recognition to mental illnesses characterized by brooding and reflection ... A broader test should be adopted." The proposed test, already known as the "Durham Rule": a jury must decide 1) whether an accused was suffering from...
...frugal choice. However, is that a good reason to give it away at 42?? If I could buy butter at 64? a Ib. (the price we taxpayers paid), I'd buy ten pounds at a time without its affecting my margarine purchases . . . If my example is any criterion, the Department of Agriculture's bitter butter problem could be solved in a few short weeks . . . Golly, I'd like to go into that department with my old WAC broom...
Three members of the council are drawing up a statement of the basic theoretical aspects of the differences between major and minor sports, White said. The statement wil be used as the criterion for judging each individual sport...
...Colette are not only subjective but largely autobiographical. Each crisis of her life, almost as in a diary, may be marked throughout her work. Such an intense fascination with oneself often descends in literature to a sort of raving sentimentality in which one's own life becomes the criterion to judge significance of material. Thus an ink stain on a grade school composition receives equal treatment with the publication of a first book, leaving both author and reader floundering in a great amount of weepy nonsense. Colette's reserve in this respect, and her sifting of minutiae, gives her work...