Word: overview
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says, is "a strong admixture of naive speculation and undocumented assertion." Shrager believes that the latest research finally gives support to trial lawyers after years of criticism from the Chief Justice. He says, "I get curiouser and curiouser that he doesn't seem to communicate an accurate overview of how our system of justice is operating...
Perhaps De Palma and Stone had aspirations of Godfatherhood: an operatic overview of the nation's immigrant black princes, a meticulous dissection of the relationship between crime and Big Business, a celebration of the American power ethic, a warning against corporal or corporate abuse. But Scarface lacks the generational sweep and moral ambiguity of the Corleone saga. At the end, Tony is as he was at the beginning: his development and degeneration are horrifyingly predictable; his death evokes not fear or pity, but numb relief...
...this indicates as much as anything is how one-sided the so-called rivalry really is. Pierson's volume on merely 50 years of Yale history lists in its index almost 70 references to Harvard, and more than 40 under the category Yale-Harvard comparisons. Morison's 300-year overview makes a scant 15 mentions of Yale. It is quite easy, in discussing Harvard, to ignore Yale...
...Lewis Thomas, 69, has built a successful second career by giving many laymen their first clear overview of the moral and even aesthetic problems that can be encountered in the laboratory. The bestselling essays in The Lives of a Cell and The Medusa and the Snail moved nimbly from the microscopic to the transcendental. Nucleoli revealed worlds of meaning; peptides hid oceans of being. Charmed by Thomas' low-key lyricism, the judges of the National Book Award granted the physician-researcher its prize for arts and letters in 1975. Somehow the doctor had put his pulse on the thumb...
...this comprehensive overview, Starr touches on a range of issues, from the over-production of doctors in the late 19th century to the recent rise of for profit health-care corporations, a development with ominous overtones in Starr's view...