A devoted husband and father, he then entered the workaday professional ranks, doing ordinary duties, even to dubious ends, living in comfort and enjoying professional esteem.
And without verification, dubious findings live on to mislead.Careerism also encourages exaggeration and the cherry-picking of results.
In her touching first-person article, "The Dubious Privilege of Living on Two Sides of a Chasm" (Week in Review, Dec. 3), describing the fearful conditions that Palestinians and Israelis are living under at this time, Deborah Sontag does not mention one important detail.
And there is the thorned glee of energetic, more lighthearted numbers like "Gimme Some," an ode to avarice ecstatically performed by Mr. Ribeiro and the winning child actor Morgan Burke, and "Don't Forget 127th Street," a sardonic catalog of the dubious pleasures of living in Harlem.
I was pleased to read Deborah Sontag's first-person article "The Dubious Privilege of Living on Two Sides of a Chasm" (Week in Review, Dec. 3), and not surprised by the negative response ("The Grand Canyon of the Mideast," letters, Dec. 5).
But the ubiquitousness of cancer in our culture is of dubious value to those living with the disease.
And she has confirmed an instinct for quality in us that many Americans had come to believe no longer mattered, an instinct that was and still is being shunted aside for dubious versions of instant living.
Eagulls made a name through lively (if legally dubious) shows in their friends' living rooms and basements.
Young Daniel has the dubious luck to live through the plague year of 1665-66 and to see his childhood home burn in the Great Fire of London.
These people are generally of dubious provenance, normally live in California and tend to peddle advice that is either irrelevant or out of date.
