Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those who wish to pursue genetic social engineering. Such a debate needs to be held at a national, not local, level. As Mendelsohn warns, it is time to take stock of this type of research and decide whether we really want to make these discoveries. Despite what many scientists claim, "there isn't inevitability to discovery," he says. "You can choose the path to take." Perhaps if such stock had been taken with greater seriousness in 1939-40, scientists would have agreed to discontinue atomic research, or at least measure the potential gains and losses. Such is the case with...
...East Berlin last week (see THE WORLD), many of the leaders not only ringingly announced their independence from Moscow but insisted that in the West, at least, the only way of gaining power was through reliance on a magic word. The word is democracy, which Western European Communists now claim to espouse. It was in its own way quite a tribute to that conservative revolution...
Looking Elsewhere. As Brennan went on to point out, an inevitable and perhaps desirable adjustment has begun. Lawyers are looking away from the Supreme Court as the sole source of legal wisdom and progress; instead, they are pressing novel claims on receptive state supreme courts. The top courts in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey and South Dakota -among others-have all shown a willingness to go further on certain issues than has the nation's top court. For instance, the New Jersey Supreme Court in 1973 declared the unequal funding of public schools through local property taxes...
...protest to intruders who entered his domain. Gone, mused my father, who had once carried me on his shoulders through these fields (now he needed my hand). Another friend swallowed by time, my father said. But the old rascal's progeny were all about, he laughed. They could claim the field mice and the unsuspecting young bull snakes. They would still soar on the thermals beneath those towering cumulus clouds and watch over this land as they had done for centuries...
...this is now the natural "look" of most American realism. If the exhibition is littered with homefried parodies of an earlier sublimity, it is because many of the artists could find only a conventional way of producing an "official" heroic landscape. Despite Art Historian Robert Rosenblum's benevolent claim in the catalogue that "in most of these works, the mood is one of exhilarating adventure and head-clearing oxygenation," the paint surface tends to go dead at the timber line: the mountain pictures, like Lowell