Word: answers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where the physical scientists promise to solve social problems and the social scientists promise to solve all the rest (including happiness), who really needs a liberal arts scholar? By their words, by this year of their lives, the first fellows of the National Humanities Center are working on an answer for the many people, not excluding themselves, to whom the absolute value of a liberal arts education has become a casualty of modern doubt second only to religion...
...world is not only wrong as a matter of fact but dangerous as a basis for policy." If the U.S. shies away from military intervention abroad, he said, that is a sign not of weakness but of a mature recognition that "our military forces cannot provide a satisfactory answer to the purely internal problems of other nations...
...kisses but struck out in two attempts at lovemaking. According to the general's heirs, Ike never dreamed of cheating on Mamie. Poor ABC does not know what to think. The mini-series Ike raises the question of its hero's infidelity at every turn, only to answer that question with a resounding "Maybe." Even Henry James might marvel at the network's scrupulous ambiguity...
...audaciously examined the most profound of all genetic questions: How do living things pass on characteristics from one generation to the next? The answer turned out to lie in the tiny, long-mysterious bits of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) tucked away in the heart of every cell...
...better than the newspaper paints it. Talking to his own readers in Dayton, Editor Rosenfeld found them questioning the editor's self-righteous conviction that he only reports a world he never made: "Readers see us as moral vigilantes . . . the voice of asperity and sterile detachment." One answer to declining newspaper readership, Rosenfeld seems to suggest, is a more human tone, a sense of pity and understanding about the news an editor must report...