Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each fraternity keeps to itself. Research projects are conceived and funded separately, and teams work as closed units. A group will have more contact with people doing similar work in Arizona, or the USSR, than it will with a group doing a different project down the hall. A piecemeal progress is being made here, with technological inevitability...
Gaposhkin will talk on any subject, the bigger the better. He expands on universal peace and love, on a letter he wrote to President Nixon: "I said we should take all the biggest bombs, and drop them in the biggest ocean." Before technological progress gave birth to Space War, stargazing seems to have had a pacific influence...
...housing and employment of more negroes ... I can summarize my attitude about employing more negroes very simply-I think it is a wonderful idea for somebody else, somewhere else. I know this is not a very praiseworthy point of view, but I feel the negroes have already made enough progress to last the next 100 years and there is such a thing as overdoing it ... I lived right in the middle of one race riot in which negroes committed atrocities equal to any in Viet...
Despite lack of significant progress so far, his doctors say Teddy may recover. Insists Boston's Dr. David Nathan, an expert on aplastic anemia and a consultant in Teddy's case: "We're simply going to keep on with this job." Teddy remains cautiously optimistic; he has repeatedly said that he would walk out of confinement to virtually certain death if he thought there was no hope. There is nothing to stop him but a curtain of air-and his will to survive...
...that be gan with Blue Eyes (1974) and will be completed with the publication next fall of The Education of Patrick Silver, in which Isaac rides again. The prolific Charyn, 38, an associate professor of English at the City University of New York, also has two other works in progress, including the history of an imaginary European kingdom called Whalebone. A resourceful scavenger of story ideas, Charyn says the inspiration for the Isaac trilogy came from night mares of his brother, a homicide detective in the New York police department. Whalebone was provoked by a reading of Emperor Maximilian...