Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While some writers believe that the computer will one day replace the man, I have always been persuaded that a million years of development of the heart, the conscience and all the other instincts that we call "human" can never really be replaced by anything technological. After reading your excellent article, I remain of the same frame of mind...
...estimated that they had only 62 votes-still five short of what they needed. Sensing that the treaty had stalled, Michigan G.O.P. Senator Robert Griffin, a vigorous opponent, devised a strategy of sending the pact back to the President with the advice to renegotiate it with Torrijos. When Carter called Griffin to express his fear that a defeat would be a "devastating blow to the presidency," the Senator rather sharply replied: "I'm also concerned about the presidency. If you don't have the votes, you ought to take the initiative and call the treaty back, the same...
...That," said Zorinsky, "was above and beyond the call of duty...
...next morning, at Zorinsky's office, there was a call from Hamilton Jordan. The President still wanted...
Turow acknowledges this criticism, but disagrees. Sort of. "A lot of my classmates think I did exaggerate the grade competitiveness. My own response is that I think there's poetic truth in One L"--not bad, for a book Turow himself deems too flat and stereotyped to call a novel. "People claim not be as conscious of grades, not to feel those pressures. My own sense is that I really got to the genie of Harvard Law School. The genius. The germ...