Word: murmurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your article on man's origins [Nov. 7] was fascinating. I find it somewhat strange that religious people refuse to accept the idea of evolution while accepting without apparent murmur other scientific knowledge. Such people hold out against evolution because they think it discredits the Bible. I believe Christianity would certainly survive if everyone frankly conceded that Adam and Eve were mythological characters...
...ridiculously long polka-dot tie, an outfit Diane might have found on the floor of her own closet). She starts to compliment him on his tennis, gets lost in one of her enchanted word-forests, then subsides into pretty embarrassment: "Oh, God, Annie ... Well, oh, well ..." And then the murmur of defeat: "La-de-dah, la-de-dah." Heartbreaking. Does anyone doubt that young women across the country are looking into their mirrors and trying to find just the right intonation with which to murmur...
...disaffected investors tell it, Holzer used her Hair-built Broadway fame to recruit backers for a wide variety of foreign import, commodity and real estate deals. She started out with a small group of associates, friends from the Spanish community and Broadway chums, to whom she would casually murmur, say, something about how she had an opportunity to make a bundle on Japanese automobiles imported to Indonesia. At first the results were impressive. One woman gave her $5,000 and made a $12,260 profit within a year. She then got some friends...
Writing Cook. Because Roots is a black family reunion of sorts, Haley sees some distinct differences in why whites and blacks are so attracted by it. Discounting speculation that his work would unleash black rage, Haley says, "I've not heard one murmur of radicalization from blacks. I have heard ebullience and happiness that the story has been told. The blacks who are buying books are not buying them to go out and fight someone, but because they want to know who they are. Roots is all of our stories. It's the same for me or any black...
...SURPRISING THING about the student boycott of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities is not that it may soon end, but that it has lasted so long. Most of the incendiary issues of the late 1960s and early '70s would today raise but a murmur of protest among a small handful of students. Issues like Harvard's involvement with the Defense Department or its alleged connections to the Central Intelligence Agency or the University's ownership of stock in Gulf Oil pale in most student minds when compared to problems like floaters or overcrowding in the Houses...