Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie buff friends tell me that the above scene is the first instance in which Woody Allen presents Annie Hall's main theme: the idea that only in art can one reshape reality and have complete control over one's life. As Alvy says into the camera after the scene, "Boy, if life were only like this...
...standing here on my bully pulpit railing against "lax academic standards"--not I, one of the beneficiaries of grade inflation! I suppose I'm struggling more with the idea of Truth, at least in the context of academic writing--the sort of writing that occupies each of us at least for the years we are here...
...choose to interact daily as friends or colleagues. I could sense people watching me, viewing me as an interloper in their protected little social world. While I clearly understood, even on entering the club, that I would never be a part of this group, I had absolutely no idea of how alone I would feel that night...
Readers of your report on new antitumor drugs that have been approved for treating breast cancer [PERSONAL TIME: YOUR HEALTH, Sept. 14] were left hanging. They must be asking themselves, "When should I take tamoxifen?" since the panel of experts who ruled on the drug did not endorse the idea that tamoxifen actually "prevents" breast cancer. If you are at proven elevated risk for breast cancer, the answer is, Take tamoxifen at any time. Tamoxifen does not wear out as a preventive after five years; in fact, it "imprints" the breast and protects women for years after they stop taking...
When Czech president Vaclav Havel was in Washington last month, he told Madeleine Albright that he had a novel idea: When his current term ends, she should become president of the Czech Republic. As secretary of state, Albright is nominally in line for the U.S. presidency, but as a foreign-born citizen, she cannot hold the office. Not so in the Czech Republic, where Albright was born. The idea of Albright's succeeding Havel, who has been found to have lung cancer, was being touted by Havel's friends in a Czech magazine called The New Presence...