Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...room for complacency in all this if the policy accompanying such awesome weaponry were that of use only as a last resort or at least that of mutual assured destruction (MAD), thereby insuring what General Douglas MacArthur said of nuclear war, that any conflict at all would be a form of "double suicide...
This is welcome news for the aged, for whom cataract removal is one of the most common operations, and one of the most ancient. Cataracts can, of course, form at any stage in life as a result of injury, inflammation or disease, and may even be present at birth. But they are, like wrinkles and gray hair, most commonly a natural byproduct of the aging process. The normal lens of the eye, located behind the iris, consists of clear protein encased in a capsule. Cataracts are changes in the molecular structure of the lens protein that cause it to lose...
...Episcopal Church, which remained unified while other American denominations were sundered over the slavery issue, is now dividing over women priests. Some of the dissidents are leaving to form a new church; more are staying to fight from within. Last week at a resort in Port Saint Lucie, Fla., 125 members of the church's House of Bishops met and struggled to prevent further damage...
...zanne's anxiety-the scrupulousness of a genius without facility -would soon become one of the touchstones of modern consciousness. One cannot guess what form art might have assumed without the example of late Cézanne. He was to cubism what Masaccio had been to the Florentine Renaissance. But Cézanne's importance as progenitor of modern art has, paradoxically, blurred him as a painter. As the English art historian Lawrence Gowing remarks, "In his last years Cézanne was reaching out for a kind of modernity that did not exist, and still does...
Perhaps the most striking, if ironic, confirmation of the importance and effectiveness of Amnesty International's human rights efforts came in the form of criticism of the organization by such frequent targets of Amnesty charges as the regimes in Eastern Europe, South Africa and Chile. The western governments in particular have been sensitive to Amnesty International's success in effecting a shift in international opinion, a shift that is gradually sapping the international political and economic support without which these notoriously repressive regimes could not long survive...