Word: permited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...haunt him as intensely as any college senior. One feels, in talking to him, that Gruening has not yet been able to assimilate the existential horror of the draft for Vietnam: it torments him, and he has fought it endlessly. Currently he is planning for new regulations that would permit draftees to refuse service in Vietnam. The idea's appeal is simple decency; one expects that it will...
Such anecdotes permit Ronald Clark to avoid one of the pitfalls of scientific biography-the depressing fact that the research that makes famous scientists famous in the first place is virtually incommunicable to the general public. Haldane's great, obsessive scientific passion, for instance, was the genetic structure of Drosophila, a particular variety of the common fruit fly, an absorption that only another scientist, or another Drosophila, could reasonably be expected to share...
...inbreeding genes which produce success. If social circumstances prevented a group's members from choosing their own marriage partners, or prevented the valuing of intelligence, environmental factors could have artificially depressed the natural level of intelligence in the group's population. Relieving those oppressive circumstances would, of course, permit readaptation and a return to parity...
...volunteer workers for animals, we certainly see the true situation. With 40 million surplus, unplaceable cats and dogs that pet owners permit to be born each year, the suffering we see would fill several books...
...building Director James Elliott gave Staff Designer Lawrence Channing a free hand to house the Atheneum's distinguished pottery and ironwork. Channing devised pyramidal plastic enclosures which permit the pottery to be viewed from every side and eliminate light reflections-a vast improvement on the standard flat, glass-topped case. Ironwork is mounted on open, tentlike forms. To show off the unique collection of ballet costumes, triangular booths were set in surrealist space across wide expanses of floor. Thus the viewer can wander around and encounter each costume-clad dummy individually, each as isolated and unexpected as a presence...