Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...measuring its small reverberations in her life-style. Similarly, she captures the human foibles of theatrical luminaries, such as Katharine Cornell's tendency to flutter her hands immediately before going onstage. Artists like Sir John Gieglud and Alfred Lunt are for the author magnificent human beings. Olivier in particular emerges not so much as the world's finest actor but as a perfect gentleman, treating young, awed actors as collegues, drinking with them, exchanging stories with them and giving advice. The gift of great actors is first and foremost their love and devotion to their fellow actors and their craft...
...events that led to regulation of DNA research based upon these scientists' recommendations, and documents these scientists' retreat from the principle of DNA research regulation. Lear is at his best when describing the intricacies of the political maneuvers. He demonstrates a flair for anecdotes that succinctly capture a particular scientists's personality or motivation...
...followed excitement. From wat, in China to peace in Europe to Presidential campaigns in America. Theodore H. White's In Search of History: A Personal Expedition is his account of the excitement he follows. While the book is White's personal view of history, and in particular a personal view of his history, it is not a probing view of his personality, which is an important distinction to remember when reading his work...
...TIME Chicago Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate that such groups pose "dangerous ramifications for the two-party system." Business associations, he feels, are also becoming too narrowly focused on single issues. The proliferating political action committees, financed by private corporations, unions or associations, are solely concerned with the passage of particular legislation, not with broader party and national problems. "Our professional managers," said Ford, "have become political neuters...
...which each black student at Harvard can end the black isolation that chokes off the full range of benefits that are available at white colleges. There is no sense in waiting for all black students to move to embrace these variegated success-patterns as a precondition for any particular black doing so. There is, after all, a massive weight of habit surrounding the past decade of black solidariy behavior, and nowhere has it been overcome tout de suite...