Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even Fried's own history seems to substantiate Prescott's claim that contemporary America is a fallen world, at odds with its ideal past. A large part of the book's bite comes, in fact, from a half-humorous debunking of out historical myths: Emerson got most of his ideas from his Unitarian cohorts, Fried smirkingly insinuates, and Benjamin ("Early to bed, early to rise") Franklin never rose until noon. More substantively, it's hard to detect any real difference between, for example, the imperialism for which Julian chides the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Stuart Rantoul Prescott's glorious...
...four skim and a pint of buttermilk. In the ensuing tumble they made a gallon of egg nog and two ice cream bricks. Another result of the wrangle was a fine little boy who was born speaking high-school French. For respectability's sake Cheryl has always tried to claim that I was in some way responsible for little Andre's occurrence, but I know this to be a falsehood. For one thing, no one in my family has ever been interested in picking up empties on Mondays and Thursdays. Besides that, I've been saving it, you know, until...
...BEATTIE has been getting a lot of hype since her first two books were published simultaneously, and on the whole the claim that she is one of the most promising writers around right now seems justified. Both Chilly Scenes, a novel, and Distortions, a collection of short stories, center on the same theme: the emptiness of relationships formed through inertia, the bleak mindlessness of lives without purpose...
That chapter began in the bloody 1930s when Lysenko, a young plant breeder from the Ukraine, burst onto the Soviet scientific scene with a beguiling claim: that the inheritance of physical characteristics could be manipulated in plants by their environment. It was an idea totally at odds with modern genetics, which holds that an organism's basic color or shape, say, is passed from one generation to the next by the genes with inflexible regularity (except when they are mutated). But the theory was highly compelling to Stalin; he had become increasingly annoyed at the failure of conventional agricultural...
Toland is all too gullible about some of those witnesses. The book records without serious question things like the claim of Dr. Erwin Giesing that he tried to assassinate Hitler with an overdose of cocaine. Toland also relishes obscure detail to the point of tedium. He includes, for instance, a minute description of the shower facilities at the men's home in Vienna where a young and impoverished Hitler lived for three years just before World War I. Yet in larger matters Toland strays woefully from the record. He asserts that Hitler was "still a member in good standing...