Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...written statement of track captain Keith Colburn establishes. I believe, the only proper guideline for strike activity: "The policy of the Harvard track team has always been to respect the individual's right to decide whether or not to compete. The present situation will not alter this policy...
...fight against air pollution, perhaps the most important factor missing is constructive alter-natives to the present way of life. Short of a revolution, there seems little that Americans can do to influence their environment. All the cards are held by the large corporations. By providing an answer to air pollution. Jamison's book offers the public an outlet for its frustration...
Adapting this idea of horizon, Lonergan makes it part of his theory of knowledge. A man can alter his horizon by recognizing it as a limitation on his ability to know - indeed, as a limitation on the very questions that he must ask in order to know. He can open himself to information from out side his horizon, use that information to formulate new questions, and continue to grow. By thus transcending his limitations, a man undergoes "conversion," which may be moral, intellectual, social or religious. In Lonergan's approach to theology, which he will spell out in detail...
Geologists suspect that the undersea oilfields stretch in twin crescents from the coasts of Burma and Thailand along the Indonesian Archipelago to as far south as Australia. If drilling proves them right, the results can not only spur development of the whole region, but will also surely alter the balance of global oil politics. Southeast Asia, along with Alaska's North Slope and the Siberian field that the Soviets revealed last month, could give world oil users great new sources of supply...
...short, the structure of the play glosses over the basic problem in the material-how to put egomania on the stage. Rolfe obviously could emphathize only with his own person or with projections of his personality (the young alter ego George Arthur Rose and the Bishop of Caerleon). The other characters in his fantasy pageant fit into stereotypes of melodrama. Tocqueville was not the last egotist to structure a world view on the assumption that all other human beings are coarse and mediocre. A dramatic rendering of Tocqueville's Recollections would have just as many pitfalls as Rolfe's Hadrian...