Word: alters
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...betraying his faith in doubt, Brecht argues, Galileo also betrayed a new age of reason in which scientists would control their own discoveries for the good of common humanity. This is rather naive because it assumes that people alter power rather than that power alters people. It leads Brecht into his customary fallacy of assuming that power is good in the hands of workers and scientists and bad in the hands of statesmen, clerics and generals. As a historical determinist, Brecht curiously calls for a needless martyrdom. With or without Galileo's recantation, an age of science was inevitable...
...contrast to the politically committed activists, hippies have withdrawn from American culture and despair of any hopes that they, the "new lefties," or anyone else can alter the prevailing patterns of that culture
Persuasive though that notion may sound, it is doubtful whether such a system would appreciably alter the number or intensity of sex crimes. Lady Snow ignores a vast body of psychiatric thought that questions the cause-and-effect relationship between pornographic material and sexual aberration; sex-sick minds seem infinitely capable of being triggered into violence without the help of pornography...
Clever Chatter. With Collier cast as the mother, Composer Levy had to alter the role from mezzo to soprano; he also changed the role of her son from tenor to baritone. That was regrettable. Though John Reardon as the son and Sherill Milnes as the lover both performed superbly, the pairing of two baritones and two sopranos robbed the vocal writing of contrast. More damaging was the fact that Levy's mildly modern score, conducted by Zubin Mehta, did not meet the challenge of the theme, too often resorted to clever percussive chattering that seemed to say "crisis coming...
Harvard divers Bill Murphy and Pete Alter were eliminated Saturday after the first round of the three-meter diving competition at the NCAA swimming championships in East Lansing, Mich. Murphy, diving in his first national championships, slipped up in an early dive and was unable to gain enough points to remain in the contest...