Word: gould
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...prospect of making us less competitive," said John Gould, president of Associated Industries of Massachusetts...
...never faced a sterner challenge than Dick Tracy, his adaptation of Chester Gould's comic strip about the big-city detective with a right-angle jaw. Batman, the comic-strip blockbuster of 1989, had entranced moviegoers with its dark, brooding take on urban corruption. Would the brighter, perkier Dick Tracy seem of less heft? More to the box-office point, would young people want to see the movie? Who is Dick Tracy anyway? The strip runs in only about half the 550 newspapers that carried it in the Eisenhower years. And who's this Warren Beatty? He hasn...
Harvard paleontologist and author Stephen Jay Gould told nearly 700 graduates at Clark University in Worcester that nature is "massively indifferent" to their concerns--and this was cause for rejoicing...
Human beings are "accidental, unrepeatable, lucky-to-be-here side twigs on the glorious arboretum of life," said Gould, who is the Agassiz professor of zoology at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology...
...shouldn't kid ourselves with respect to our power," said Gould, who received a honorary doctor of science degree. "The planet would probably take care of itself...