Word: developable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...immediate agricultural or industrial needs. "The Academy of Science," Teng said, "is an academy of science; it is not an academy of cabbage." To all such rude comments, the radicals replied with a statement of pure faith. "Revolution," argued one of them, "can change everything, modernize the economy and develop science and technology...
...contribute to a deepening understanding of the tyranny-of-love phenomenon. Unfortunately, the author so frequently loses control of her material that references to her putative theme seem to have been tacked on to each episode as afterthoughts. Her conclusions about the crippling side effects of love do not develop organically out of Stephanie's life story; they seem rather to have been squeezed...
Sometime that afternoon, 1:30 p.m. to be precise. Darthmouth will get its chance to avenge last year's loss to the Crimson. If Harvard's lucky, it won't rain on Memorial Field, and another Cornell fiasco won't develop...
...works for a while and she gets to Italy, but her life stubbornly continues "to spread, to get flabby, to scroll and festoon like the frame of a baroque mirror." Significantly, the same might be said of Margaret Atwood's writing in Lady Oracle. The novel does not develop; it meanders, circling around and turning in on itself - letting its contours be defined by the chaos of the heroine's psyche. Italicized chunks of Joan Foster's latest gothic romance pop up just when one is expecting the next chapter in her life. The reader is kept...
...when the United States was frantically racing to develop the atomic bomb, there was no time to debate the risks of nuclear power. We are now faced with experimentation that could have the same drastic consequences, but the situation is far different. There is time to discuss and evaluate. The Cambridge Review Board should not throw that time away...