Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They order these matters better in the natural sciences. Chemistry would not have improved much since Lavoisier's youth if chemists were still loosely calling all combustible materials phlogiston. The word oxygen means what it means, and neither Humpty Dumpty nor Spiro Agnew can alter that. New things-or newly discovered things -need new names. When a new microorganism swims into the biologist's ken, he does not reach back into folklore and call it a "small dragon"; he quarries the lexicon of a very dead language and concocts, say, "staphylococcus," a word never known before on land...
Salo sees the change as one that will radically alter the character of the square. He predicts an influx of chain stores and big, modern retail outlets, that can survive the high overhead. "With Cambridge's rent control, Wasserman can't make much profit in his residential property, so he's got to make up for it on the commercial lots...
...Administration. Apart from Goodell, the insistence on ideological purity has greater practical significance for the future. Such Republican liberals as Charles Percy, Mark Hatfield and Edward Brooke, whose terms expire in 1973, undoubtedly perceive the warning signal: if necessary, Nixon is prepared to sacrifice even Republican liberals to alter the character of the Senate. Conservative Robert Dole of Kansas does nothing to allay such apprehensions when he says: "The liberals in the Senate are still important, but they're not the key votes." Then Dole muses: "If we get more conservatives, we wouldn't need them...
Last June, Goldberg may have seemed the perfect man to halt Rockefeller's march to a fourth term; he seems considerably less so in October. He has just barely managed to stay in close contention. He has been handicapped by factors he cannot alter: a shift to the right in voter sentiment and a personal campaign style that has changed in the course of four months from disastrous to mediocre. But if he does not excite the voters, he clearly gets their respect as he makes his rounds in three-button suit (all buttoned and a flag...
...promised to provide treatment within six months for every addict who wants it, and has even said he would walk ghetto streets himself to be sure heroin is no longer being openly sold. Rockefeller candidly admits the seriousness of the situation even while he emphasizes his efforts to alter...