Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...human evolution focusing on the behavior of Homo sapiens' predecessors; where is the paradox? He sagely asserts that DeVore "fails to understand that human beings are qualitatively unique organisms"; all animal species are "qualitatively unique." He links DeVore's studies to those of "sociobiology" in an apparent attempt to discredit DeVore through the controversial nature of that new field; DeVore's views are those of traditional biological anthropology. I guess Emmerich just dislikes the study of human evolution, or perhaps he is "out of his league" in discussing it. Anyway, in his final paragraph he changes DeVore's scientific theories...
...house simply collapses and dies. Rosa knows that her mind is slipping into senility. The boy Momo, caught in the erratic currents of adolescence, tries to puzzle out these shabby indignities. When the film sees life through his eyes, its strengths begin to cohere. There is no discredit to Signoret in speculating that Madame Rosa would have made better artistic sense if it had been called Momo, and if it had given most of its attention to the life that was beginning, not the one that had all but ended...
...first time in my life, had realized what it means to fight inch by inch and achieve one's goals. How mean I have been to discredit war heroes and generals--now I felt as one myself...
...best, their counter-propaganda efforts will discredit and slow down the rise of the Front. But the fundamental problem of an economic failure and its disastrous human consequences will remain. The reversal of this economic failure, and of its dehumanizing consequences remains the real problem for Britain. Ultimately, it will only be resolved through the supersession of the cyclical capitalist economy, which recurrently exposes society to economic breakdown, and concurrently exposes it to the fascist threat...
...Kissinger. Nixon, Haldeman writes, "knew that Henry's view on a particular subject was sometimes subject to change without notice." Nixon did not destroy his tapes because at first he felt he would never have to give them up and later he thought they could be used to discredit John Dean. Haldeman flatly denies Nixon's Frost-show claim that he once told Haldeman to get rid of the tapes...