Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fraudulent." Last week, before TV cameras and an overflow crowd of more than 1,500 spectators, the state legislature's education committee opened hearings on 19 proposals to alter the Imbalance Act. The lead speaker, fittingly enough, was Mrs. Hicks, who once again praised "neighborhood schools," denounced "intellectual bureaucrats," and tried to stake her case on busing: "How much longer do we have to listen to the fraudulent statements of those who say the schools can be balanced with massive cross-busing?" In actual fact, some 85% of Boston high school students already use buses or public transportation...
Psychosurgery, or modification of the brain to alter or control some aspect of personality, is an ancient operation. Trephining (opening the skull) was performed in Peru 12,000 years ago, probably to let out suspected demons; 14th century anatomy texts contain instructions for similar operations. Except for a brief period during the 1940s and 1950s, psychosurgery has never won wide acceptance in the U.S., and for good reason. Lobotomies, operations to lessen severe abnormal anxiety by severing nerve connections in the brain, resulted in improvement only half the time, and turned many patients into human vegetables...
...withdrawal of union leaders will not alter the fact that the government is going to be poking its nose into the regulation of wages and prices." William B. Gould, visiting professor of Law, said yesterday...
...sensibility will no doubt go on for years, especially among the more politically committed women artists; and no doubt it will produce its abundant quota of bad, programmatic ideological illustration. No matter. The important thing is that the assumed imbalance of talent in the visual arts has begun to alter, and that Virginia Woolf s sadly true remark, " 'Anonymous' was a woman," may not describe the future...
...centrist political structure has normally excluded solutions to public problems which would significantly alter the distribution of power. But the mere act of shaking up that structure is not sufficient. Not every form of polarization is desirable. Wallace's victory is something neither to rejoice about, nor even cynically to snicker...