Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history, Butterfield averred that there were definite repercussions but they were hard to isolate and define. Individual scientific achievements are a causative factor in the development of society: "Something creative can be attributed to Newton, but I'm in reaction against the view that a few great men make the history of science. Each individual is a fresh influence on the world...
...often the case that Harvard must search out such applicants through local alumni clubs and admissions-committee members' visits. Getting the Westerner or Southerner to Harvard is often a matter of recruitment, and any mathematics requirement might make this recruiting very difficult, if not impossible in certain areas...
...Lehrer has his relations with his audience pretty well figure dout. "I don't feel the 'waves of love' they tell you an entertainer is supposed to feel. The hardest thing is to make it look as if you're enjoying it," he says. "It's so mechanical now, I find my mind wanders and I get lost in the middle of a song...
...writing and recording, that's another thing--I can do that in my spare time. I'd like to go back to teaching, though. I invested a lot of time in my Ph.D. and I want to finish my thesis. The whole point of this singing is to make up the economic difference between a job in industry and a teaching salary...
...make it a rule not to sing my own songs at parties any more," Lehrer said, a little ruefully. "The party turns into a request session and it's no fun for me. It's my business now and I don't like to be asked to work in my spare time. It's like inviting a plumber to dinner and then asking him to fix the john before he leaves...