Word: normale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...broader scale, the court has shown increasing reluctance to settle questions better left to "the normal processes of democracy [such as legislatures or regents boards]." It has at times declined, in cases involving schools, to second-guess educational professionals. Cox encouraged that approach, urging the Justices to leave the details of experimentation in race conciliation matters to local experts. The diversity of states and their universities is "one of the greatest sources of creativity in this country," he said...
...Harvard, review channels are open to the professor who wants to continue to teach beyond the normal mandatory retirement. With the approval of the departmental and full faculty, as well as President Bok, classicist John Finley 25 continued to teach into his 70s. All universities and colleges should establish similar review mechanisms to provide for exceptional cases such as this...
...most ancient. Cataracts can, of course, form at any stage in life as a result of injury, inflammation or disease, and may even be present at birth. But they are, like wrinkles and gray hair, most commonly a natural byproduct of the aging process. The normal lens of the eye, located behind the iris, consists of clear protein encased in a capsule. Cataracts are changes in the molecular structure of the lens protein that cause it to lose its natural transparency and gradually become opaque...
...left nearly blind. As Hollywood Screenwriter Leonard Spigelgass, 68, who has had two lenses implanted, recalls: "Your lenses turn into agate, and you're forced to look through stone." Removing these shadowed lenses allows light to enter the eye but creates another problem. The lens of the normal eye focuses the light rays; without it, vision becomes hopelessly blurred. Under such circumstances, the patient has only a few options: thick glasses, contact lenses or the artificial lens implant. The special spectacles restore vision to normal levels but, in the process, magnify images by 30% and leave the patient with...
...conflict is also apparent in her Lowell House single: her book shelves are full of the normal Harvard fare, while the signed photographs of people she's performed with--John Davidson, Zero Mostel, Joan Rives--paper her walls, along with a hat collection that started, she says, when admirers sent her various hats. Even a high grade average in Government, she says, "is not at all appropriate to the theater world...