Word: developable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strong. Terry Knickerbocker as Senex, Hero's lecherous father, delivers his lines in a gutteral huff, and his singing is so stiff as to be wooden. Diane Nabatoff as Domina, his wife, does a generally good job, but is hampered because she and Knickerbocker never seem to develop the right rapport. Jim Pullam brings only braggadocio to his characterization of Miles Gloriosus; it's a tough role to sing, but Pullam can't quite hit the bass notes...
...Finally, an educated individual should have achieved depth in some field of knowledge. Here I have in mind something that lies between the levels of professional competence and superficial acquaintance. In Harvard terminology it is called a "concentration." The theory is straightforward: cumulative learning is an effective way to develop a student's powers of reasoning and analysis. It is expected that in every concentration students will gain sufficient control of the data, theory and methods to define the issues in a given problem, develop the evidence and arguments that may reasonably be advanced on the various sides of each...
...energy policy, the President plans to urge the expansion of nuclear-power production and the development of offshore reserves and coal through Government-backed financial incentives and the lifting of certain environmental restrictions. To cut back consumption and give the companies the means and incentive to develop new domestic sources, Ford would continue to advocate the complete deregulation of oil and gas prices. This policy is sure to be fought by the Democratic Congress...
...thinks a battery of tests can be devised to identify people who are aging unusually fast or slowly and to find out why. "If eating cornflakes or using toothpaste makes us age fast," he says, "we would now have no way of knowing this." What would it cost to develop techniques to slow aging in humans? On a reasonable guess, "one-fifth the cost of the Soyuz space circus plus some time. It might fail (so might the moon landing have done) but it probably will not. What we need to decide is whether we want...
...recession conferred any small compensatory blessing on the industrialized world, it was a respite from the energy crisis. Shortages of oil gave way to a worldwide glut, and prices stabilized. But consuming countries failed to use the lull to start any significant oil-conservation programs, or to develop alternative sources of energy rapidly enough. Indeed, they have grown even more dependent on the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries; the U.S., for example, now imports about 40% of its oil, v. 29% before the time of the Arab embargo in 1973. Now, the consuming countries are about to pay the OPEC...