Word: layman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...falls through the air with the greatest of ease. "You know you're falling," says Diver Greg Louganis, 25, however much the layman thinks it looks like flying. "It should look effortless," observes Louganis. "The 'poetic' suggestiveness comes only from strength and how strong the jump is." If that sounds like a dancer talking, it is -- in an interview in the current issue of Ballet Review. Diving and dance "complement each other," says the Olympic gold medalist. "The same type of muscles are involved." Lately he has also been concentrating on starting a new career as an actor...
...that spirit, the convention followed up its election of Stanley by voting in Moore as first vice president of the S.B.C. It was a pointed gesture of compromise. Moore's principal rival was Incumbent Zig Ziglar, a layman who has spent the past year assailing "liberal" professors. The Dallas meeting also chose an extraordinary 22-member "peace committee" to hash out internecine differences...
Revolutions in Science is a book readily comprehensible to the layman Cohen has synthesized complicated scientific concepts such as quantum theory and Cartesian metaphysics, making them not only palatable but engaging. Revolutions in Science does not offer a revolution in itself. Yet Cohen's superb scholarship, his eloquent synthesis of hundreds of year of critical thought fits Alexander Pope's perception of wit; his book contains ideas "which have often been thought but never before been so well expressed...
...Grande Grido is divided into three parts in the first part Santilli tries to explain in layman's terms some of the physical problems that he feels are being ignored. In the second part he recounts his personal experiences with leading academic institutions including Harvard and MIT with physics publications such as the Journal of the American Physical Society with U.S. government laboratories and with government agencies like the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy. In the third part he presents some tentative recommendations for improving intellectual freedom in the U.S. physics community...
FOOTNOTE: *Founded and funded by John M. Templeton, U.S. Presbyterian layman and president of the mutual funds that bear his name...