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...decay." But the chance also is there, he fears, that "the oscillations among the responses could intensify in such a way as to threaten to destroy both ideals and institutions." Moralism could get out of hand, and keep our government so weak it can't deal with the myriad problems, we face; since "the realities of power ensure that government will never be truly democratic," there is at least the possibility of continued unrest. This caution--this pessimism--is a strong undertow throughout the book...
Certainly the most famous Beanpot alum now skating in the NHL is Ranger Dave Silk. Silk's achievements are myriad. In his freshman year at B.U., he notched 35 tallies and 30 assists on his way to being named the New England Hockey Writers Association Rookie of the year. He collected another 58 points in 1978, the year the Terriers took the Beanpot and the National Championship. Though he was out of action for part of the 1979 season, Silk still managed to score 28 points for a Terrier team which once again captured the coveted...
Whatever their future course, the widening gap with Moscow has forced Eurocommunists to search for new ideological ground that will distinguish them from Western Europe's myriad Socialist and Social Democratic parties. Berlinguer's answer is a terza via (third way) that rejects Soviet-bloc Communism while "overcoming" the flaws of social democracy. So far his idea remains vague, serving as little more than a rallying slogan...
...because it was the 433rd object listed in a catalogue published a few years ago by Case Western Reserve Astronomers C. Bruce Stephenson and Nicholas Sanduleak. But it is also listed in a standard inventory of variable stars (whose light brightens and dims) as V1343 Aquilae. If the myriad catalogues are something of a hodgepodge, a semblance of order is maintained by the International Astronomical Union, the organization of the world's professional astronomers. The I.A.U. not only supervises star designations but also controls the labeling of planets, moons and other heavenly bodies that traditionally bear proper names suggested...
Over four years, Vergara drove and walked through neighborhoods in New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Boston and Los Angeles, as well as small cities in Indiana, New Jersey and Michigan. Working with a research team, he photographed some houses that manage an air of innocent sweetness despite their myriad incongruities. These are the happy accidents of design. But Vergara has also documented many flamboyant temples of vulgarity: a Cape Cod cottage on Chicago's South Side, wrapped in garishly colored stone veneer, white wrought-iron tracery and striped aluminum awnings; a semidetached gilded castle in Bayonne, N.J., concocted from pendages...