Word: frequent
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...times the attempt comes off, but reading the less successful pieces can be trying. The author's most frequent peccadillo in these pages is a bland humanist sentimentality. He may conclude that a mathematician's work was wrong or that metaphysics taints Eddington's cosmology, and yet refuse to pass adverse judgment on the scientific value of his subject's work. I have in mind particularly his approach to Eddington: "His penchant for paradoxes, his gift for seductive images, his untenable philosophical interpretations of physical events, made him a prime target for clear thinkers." Yet, "he was a major benefactor...
...world's most respected woman was a frequent visitor to Harvard. She spoke at Radcliffe's East House last May 21 and answered a barrage of questions on topics ranging from nuclear testing to the morals of Vassar girls...
Brooke urged that all Republicans vote the straight Republican ticket. He made frequent reference to "the Lord" in his short speech, promising that "the rain will stop election day--I spoke upstairs this afternoon...
Incidental support for the doctors' theory came from a woman who had had frequent angina attacks, but got complete relief after she suffered an internal hemorrhage which dropped her hematocrit reading to 26%. She asked spontaneously: "Was that bleeding good for me?'' Drs. Burch and DePasquale think it was. Also, they argue, the relative freedom from angina and coronary disease enjoyed by women of menstruating age probably reflects the fact that their hematocrits read around 40%. After the menopause, women's hematocrits go up; so does their susceptibility to coronary disease and angina...
This may account for the spongy patches that appear much too frequently in a novel that is otherwise exciting and knowledgeable. Writing of reform politicians in his last book, Author Dougherty gave his narrative that leaven of malice which is the salt of a certain kind of novel writing. In The Commissioner, the reader may feel malice-especially if he is a frequent traffic-ticketee-but the author clearly does not. Anthony Russell, the dour Irish moralist who is the police commissioner of the title, has Dougherty's worshipful approval. Russell's problems are believable-what...