Word: figment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mean and misanthropic 92 yoked to an equally mean woman who wants to inherit his land. Having no re gard for cattle, Uncle L has a herd of camels instead, along with spotted pigs, molting turkeys and a buffalo cow. Un cle L is a living figment - as well as a caricature - of the old, wild American dream. He still expects to encounter his hero, Emiliano Zapata, before he dies...
...Barnard's common rooms. Furthermore, as the SDS leaflet pointed out, a party organized by black women in South House last year was broken up by police, and black students' parties were stopped in Comstock a few years ago for "security reasons." Racism at Harvard is not a figment of SDS's imagination, as minority students and, workers here are acutely aware...
When asked why he never received the Nobel Prize, Kistiakowsky replied, "I'm not a top scientist. That's a figment of somebody's imagination. I'm faithful, hardworking, intelligent, but that's about it. I know of nothing I've done to justify the Nobel Prize...
...diseases boosted by shots. But no doctor takes part in the process; the entire examination is automated. Says one member of the team to a colleague: "That machine-you'd better not let the A.M.A. find out about it." The A.M.A. already knows. Once little more than a figment of the science-fiction writer's imagination, mechanized medicine has become a reality that reaches far beyond electrocardiographs and electroencephalographs. Physicians are turning increasingly to electronics in their efforts to lighten their labors and increase their powers of observation and analysis. In the process, the very nature of medical...
THERE are still those who contend that "Radcliffe is only the figment of the imagination of its alumnae," but for a growing number, the process of change in Radcliffe over the past two years has molded something clearly distinguishable from what Harvard has to offer, and in many instances, clearly preferable. "The warmth and high degree of communication among students and administration at Radcliffe is a thing unheard of at Harvard," observes one Radcliffe senior...