Word: defectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grau's excellence of craft disguises the book's principal defect: Evidence of Love is not truly a novel but a linking of short stories. The author's chief concern is to render her characters' responses to intense moments of their lives - one of the working definitions of the short story of the '40s and '50s. Her far-flung locations are not textured settings but flimsy sets where the author vainly at tempts to stage her quiet drama of rootlessness and disaffection...
...believe that epidemiology and evolution have been grossly underrepresented in the professional as well as in the public discussions of the problem. My credentials for correcting this defect are modest, for my research shifted away from medical microbiology a good many years ago, and since then my contact with the field has depended mostly on textbook writing. But I hope the information I offer will encourage deeper exploration of these topics by experts in future symposia...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences, about half a dozen deal explicitly with women's experiences and only one or two do so from a feminist perspective. These few courses cannot possibly satisfy all comers. It is to be hoped that once this university realizes that it is a defect not to offer courses in women's studies, it will also understand that the female experience and/or a thorough acquaintance with feminist theory will have to be a prerequisite for some, though by no means all, of them...
This potentially calamitous defect is now being remedied. The Bern relay station will soon be eliminated. To replace it, the system will rely on straight line-of-sight radio signals sent through communications satellites that the U.S. and the Soviet Union have hurled into orbit. The new switching and linking system should be virtually fail-safe. If diplomacy could be similarly fine-tuned, there would probably be no need for a hot line in the first place...
Harelips and cleft palates, in one form or another, afflict one in about every 750 newborn children, or 5,000 a year in the U.S. alone. That they develop early in fetal life is clear, but beyond that no one knows the exact cause. It may be a genetic defect, the result of maternal malnutrition or infection, drugs, or a combination of these. Whatever the cause, as fetal tissues grow and form the lips, mouth and palate, something inhibits normal development. The result is a twisted, often grotesque distortion of the nose and a gaping cleft in the upper...