Word: akin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Publishers, who periodically convene to contemplate the plight of the first novel with a melancholy akin to that so often displayed in the theater world over the perennial decline of Broadway, have considered various cures. Among them: better bookstores; special sales packages of three or four first novels together: a first-novel book club; mailorder contact with some constituency of youthful readers who are thought to care enough about serious, unheralded fiction...
...which evoked his personal agony in coping with Harvard's turmoils, he blamed campus disruption on faculty and student extremists "who would like to see our colleges and universities denigrated, maligned and even shut down." In Pusey's angry view, such agitators-specifically, the S.D.S.-use techniques akin to those of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, for whom Pusey served as a favorite target. He cited the Hitlerian tactic of "the big lie"-in this case, the radicals' claim "that the university is a hopelessly bigoted, reactionary force in our society which serves the interest...
Whether sex is more akin to golf than pro football, I leave to Miss Garrity, but it's all too funny to be real...
...Belt. The regional bodies, with anywhere from 30 to 80 councilors, depending on population, are akin to England's county councils. They will plan and administer but not legislate. Eventually they will be responsible for such areas as public health, public works, forestry, mass transportation, water supply, welfare and local planning. But they may well find themselves running afoul of Rome quite often until the areas of authority are clearly worked out. Five such councils are already operating on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia and in the northern border regions of Valle D'Aosta, Trentino-Alto Adige...
...Science is essentially an aristic or philosophical enterprise- carried on for its own sake. In this- it is more akin to play than to work. But it is quite a sophisticated play in which the scientist views nature as a system of interlocking puzzles. He assumes that the puzzles have a solution, that they will be fair. He holds to a faith in the underlying order of the universe. His motivation is his fascination with the puzzle itself- his method a curious interplay between idea and experience. His pleasures are those of any artist...