Word: generale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...future of science in general, and of astronomy in particular, has not tickled the public fancy quite the way Sagan and others thought it would. Broca's Brain constitutes an effort to revive interest. But in blundering as he does. Sagan suffocates his own cause. "Science," he writes, "is not a body of knowledge, but a way of looking at the world." Ironically, while Sagan touches dramatically on this body of knowledge, he never approaches, save in the lonely chapter on Velikovsky, that elusive point of view
Seiganthaler, editor and president of the Nashville Tennessean served as administrative assistant to Robert F. Kennedy '44 in both the 1960 presidential campaign and in the Attorney General's office...
...pitifully amusing parody of the John Dean-H.R. Haldeman "Let's Make Money Off of Watergate" autobiographies. And somehow, Vonnegut manages to work in some particularly cogent statements about the mistreatment of Sacco and Vanzetti and the history and problems of the twentieth-century labor movement in general...
...first of Harvard's four unions to renew their contracts this winter opened fire last week when the Graphic Arts International Union (Local 300) presented Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations, with a lengthy and ambitious list of contract demands...
Some accounts say Helms threatened to spill every dark secret he could dredge up if he were brought to trial; Powers ignores this scenario. In any case, in 1977 Helms' lawyers reached a deal with Attorney General Griffin Bell that allowed him (in exchange for a plea of nolo contendre) to escape with a suspended two-year jail term, a $2,000 fine paid by sympathetic colleagues, and his federal pension intact...