Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...takes on Hobbes, Hume and others for asserting that the human mind fundamentally is a sensory organ, rather than an instrument that can also intellectualize. He dismasts Darwin for categorizing man as simply an animal with higher sensory perceptions, rather than an organism that, alone among living creations, can conceive such abstractions as right and wrong. Adler is equally hard on determinists like Marx on grounds that if all consequences are predetermined, then no man can be held responsible for his acts...
...results were soon evident. Within three hours the official news agency TASS announced that Gorbachev had increased the membership of the Central Committee's policymaking organ, the Politburo, from ten to 13. In the process, he diluted the influence of the Kremlin's Old Guard, which now constitutes less than half of the Politburo membership. He also mildly flouted Kremlin protocol by leapfrogging two of his nominees to full Politburo status without benefit of an interval of nonvoting candidate membership. Finally, in his plenum speech, Gorbachev reaffirmed that the infusion of new blood at the top was part and parcel...
VARSITY 1. HARVARD (bow, Jeff Nickel; 2. Gordon MacLaren; 3. Greg Williams; 4. Patt Bennett; 5. Scott Dlugos; 6. Paul Natterson; 7. Chris Wendland; stroke; Peter Herbig; coxswain Organ Ourel) 5:40.1. 2. Dartmouth...
...Contrary, and she still seems to delight in offering a chair for her subject, merely to yank it away at the appropriate moment. In her lecture "Living with Beautiful Things," she discusses collections of great art, then decides, "By contrast to the ear, the eye is a jealous, concupiscent organ, and some idea of ownership or exclusion enters into our relation with visual beauty." From there it is a quick step to the conclusion, "Quite poisonous people, on the whole, are attracted by the visual arts and can become very knowledgeable about them. This is much less true of literature...
...certainly does Enough to realize who had actually composed some organ chorale preludes sitting in the Yale library. The compositions, in a manuscript entitled "Chorales without text," had belonged to Yale since 1873, but Wolff was the first to recognize them as early Bach...