Word: clearers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand to present awards to Pickering and two other Mariner scientists.* For cautious experts, the best of the photographs neither proved nor precluded the possible existence of life on Mars, although the planet's rugged terrain seemed hardly hospitable enough for the hardiest of bacteria. The pictures were clearer and sharper than anyone had expected. At least one of them -No. 11 - was described by Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists as "one of the most remarkable scientific photographs...
Some church leaders believe that politically activist clerics should make it clearer that when they take a stand on Viet Nam they do so as private citizens-and not as spokesmen and surrogates for Christianity. But the church should speak out with a united voice, suggests Dr. Tex S. Sample of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, when the war creates issues-such as the torture of prisoners, or bombing of civilian centers-"in which human values are at stake. We are as capable of judging human values as politicians are." At such times, adds Benjamin Seaver of the American Friends...
This is all very vague; perhaps it will be clearer if I say that Leonard Baker's Astrov is absolutely the center of attention in this production because he succeeds in making crystal clear his ties with every one of the seven other principals. He is an electric figure; one could almost hear the audience snap up when he came on stage and relax again when he went...
...educated man like I can make such matters clearer...
Secondly, it is becoming ever clearer that, as Novelist Saul Bellow said not long ago, "polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art." The vast majority of writers, publishers and critics rejoice over the decline of censorship. While it permits the emergence of much trash, they feel that this is the necessary price for the occasional great work that might otherwise be taboo-for example, Nabokov's Lolita, a brilliant tour de force. But they concede that the new permissiveness paradoxically imposes a more difficult task on the writer...