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...colleagues shudder at such popularization and simplification. After all, science has a long tradition, often violated to be sure, of modesty and understatement, even of calculated obfuscation, so that only an elite priesthood will be privy to its secrets. Other than the irrepressible Sagan, how many scientists would buzz a simulated Martian volcano, as he does in one Cosmos sequence; or rummage through a re-creation of the famed library of Alexandria, pretending to read long-lost papyrus scrolls; or attempt to explain the paradoxes of special relativity while bicycling through the hills of Tuscany, where the young Einstein once...
...Right to Life. [This] is an excellent example of a "buzz word," designed to inflame rather than illuminate. There is no right to life in any society on earth today, nor has there been at any former time (with a few rare exceptions, such as among the Jains of India). We raise farm animals for slaughter; destroy forests; pollute rivers and lakes until no fish can live there; hunt deer and elk for sport . . . All these beasts and vegetables are as alive...
Kennedy was wedded to the old-style liberalism before he wandered into the presidential buzz saw. He knew nothing else. The politics that he learned he got from his brothers and their counselors, like Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, relentless disciples of the New Deal. Kennedy's convention speech may have been a declaration of new understanding acquired in today's world. Its specifics are almost less important than the sense of the moment that the speech acknowledged. It was a time for poetry in the affairs of the country, a moment to show spirit...
...colleagues at the bank, he was unquestionably a whiz at finance, but around the office he seemed to some more like a human buzz saw-pugnacious, cutting, even on occasion rude. Yet apparently the very qualities that wound up costing A. Robert Abboud, 51, his post in April as the $265,000-a-year chairman of First Chicago Corp., the nation's ninth largest bank holding company, have landed him another top job at nearly twice his old salary. His new employer: Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum Corp., the nation's twelfth largest oil company...
...Dorothy Hamill haircut. The reporter is startled by her own instinctive response: How could this gorgeous girl be headed for an Army career? The thought is broken by an angry shout. Off to the side, male cadets are snidely calling to the women to come to formation. "Buzz off," comes the hot answer. "People say we can run, we're big, and we're ugly, and it's just not true. They think we're either butches or amazons, looking for a man, superbright or superdumb. Actually, we're very serious," she concludes, squinching down...