Word: insightful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another report in last week's Nature, while not dealing with 1987A, provided further insight into Type II supernovas. A group led by Chemist Edward Anders and Physicist Roy Lewis, both of the University of Chicago, revealed that they had discovered an abundance of submicroscopic diamonds in a meteorite that fell in Mexico in 1969. While the impact of a meteor slamming into the earth creates enough pressure to crystallize carbon into diamonds, the tiny samples found by the Chicago team apparently resulted from an ancient supernova. The evidence: they contained atomic forms of the gas xenon different from...
...interest in Harvard appointments. And if outside experts aren't often welcomed, how can the council seriously suggest that undergraduates be invited to take part? The plan's greatest effect likely will be to dispose the powers that be against involving undergraduates in areas where they have valuable insight...
Calhoun is a strong proponent of the view that songwriting is an individual pursuit--fine through most of Monday's program but frustrating during discussion of the way he actually writes songs. Yet Calhoun's sometimes lofty discussion of his art did yield insight into the creative process. Even his obligatory defense of songwriting as a legitimate art form seemed fresh and sincere, especially when he illustrated points by playing and singing...
...matter, Wills argues, whether the flyers' conversation ever took place or a high school football game Reagan often draws a moral lesson from was ever played. (It wasn't.) For Reagan, the moral lesson comes first; it shapes the event, not the other way around. Perhaps Wills' most important insight into America's 40th President can be found in his discussion of Reagan's days as a sports announcer. Reagan's detractors, who dismiss the president as "just an actor" and view him as no more than a tele-prompted automaton, have not looked back far enough into his past...
...trollop to entice the killer, McGovern makes for an agreeably matter-of-fact heroine. If only there were a little sleek skin on the bones of this plot. The visuals are the pictorial equivalent of Dragnet prose; they offer just the facts, ma'am, but no sizzle, irony or insight. So The Bedroom Window looks like a peculiar tribute to Hitchcock: an exercise in style without the style...