Word: layman
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...assembled ambassadors, ministers and government officials could barely conceal their reaction. Dramatic as the proposal may have sounded to a layman, it was nothing more than a dusted-off version of an idea Brezhnev first offered in a speech in East Berlin more than two years ago when he was still trying to thwart NATO'S decision to install new weapons in response to the Soviet buildup of SS-20 missiles aimed at Europe. Brezhnev, who was making his first trip to the West since the December 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, had been successfully upstaged by Ronald Reagan...
Hofstadter, a computer scientist, and his collaborator Daniel C. Dennett, a philosophy expert, avoid technical jargon and esoteric language throughout the book. Hofstadter is, or course, well practiced at writing for the layman; he authors a regular column in Scientific American and won a Pulitzer Prize for his book, Godel, EScher, and Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid. Working with Hofstadter, Dennett--author of Branistorms:- Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology--expands on his own explanations of artificial intelligence, computers and the unity or divisibility of the soul...
DIED. Charles Parlin, 83, former co-president of the World Council of Churches and former president of the World Methodist Council; in New York City. A staunch ecumenist, Parlin was the first American layman to be named to the six-member presidium of the World Council of Churches, where he served from 1961 to 1968. A lawyer, he defended Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam when the House Un-American Activities Committee investigated charges in 1953 that Oxnam had a Communist Party affiliation...
...Concert--Sueilen Hershman, flute, and Richard Layman, guitar; New School of Music, 25 Lowell...
...course, Wolfe is an unabashed layman with a superficial familiarity with much of the work; his analysis of Frank Lloyd Wright misses much of the old man's influence, and his indictment of Louis Kahn rings a bit hollow. Furthermore, he misses the point of the renewed interest in classicism, exemplified by Phillip Johnson's plans for the still-incomplete AT&T building in New York City. Wolfe views the neo-classicism merely as Gropius in Roman ropes, when it may reflect more deeply the wide dissatisfaction with the glass...