Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might ask not whether Wilson is responsible for "defending his theories against distortion and misuse" but whether he is responsible for the actual manipulation and implications of his ideas. This is an important topic but an irresolvable one. Wilson cannot possibly bear the responsibility for how various minds crank perverse motives out of sociobiology. Mr. Nobel had little notion of the ways people would exploit his invention, dynamite...
...body after it left Dallas long enough to retrieve the actual lethal bullets; these, Lifton says, were fired from the front of the motorcade in Dealey Plaza, not from the book depository behind the presidential convertible. The schemers, Lifton continues, enlarged Kennedy's head wound to conceal evidence that he had been shot from the front; they added two back wounds, which had not been seen by some 13 nurses and doctors handling the body at Parkland. Yes, writes Lifton, this had to be a plot "involving the Executive Branch of the Government" and including at least the Secret...
...time of the American pullout from Viet Nam in 1975. That aid has been supplemented by scores of private voluntary agencies, such as the United States Catholic Conference, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and the International Rescue Committee, which have taken charge of the actual resettlement of the refugees...
Forman lauded the decision, but expressed "concern that it might force the actual admissions process undergroud--that faculty might discuss it in the faculty dining room or while playing squash...
...years Nevelson has been almost monotonously anointed with praise, and her extreme popularity among collectors has introduced other problems. A fine line exists between fecundity and overproduction, and one may suspect that Nevelson's very success has edged her across it, demanding-in contrast with her actual masterpieces like Mrs. N's Palace-a steady output of second-line goods to keep the market happy. It is hardly imaginable that, 20 years from now, anyone except dealers will be taking Nevelson's abundant prints and recent multiples very seriously...