Word: norton
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...wonderful performance, but in the sour view of many scientists, it is largely flimflam. To them, Rifkin is a Luddite, whose opposition to DNA research is based on skewed science and misplaced mystical zeal. Geneticist Norton Zinder of New York City's Rockefeller University calls him a "fool" and a "demagogue." In a scathing 1984 review of Algeny, one of Rifkin's nine books, Harvard's Stephen Jay Gould wrote that it was "a cleverly constructed tract of anti-intellectual propaganda masquerading as scholarship . . . I don't think I have ever read a shoddier work...
Delivering the second of his six Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet John L. Ashbery '49 yesterday discussed how 19th-century writer Thomas Lovell Beddoes portrayed images of death in his works...
...point, Ashbery compared Beddoes with the British poet John Clare, the subject of his first Norton lecture, saying that both poets vanished after their works were completed, and both died tragically after leading hard lives...
...Norton; 249 pages...
...integration, it meant that more and more black folks would become more like us," says white historian David Garrow, a biographer of Martin Luther King Jr. This political climate has left many black leaders disheartened. "We don't have a clue on how to proceed," says Eleanor Holmes Norton, a top civil rights official in the Carter Administration. "I would never have said that...