Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HERO cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world," /V observed Nathaniel Hawthorne, who thought even in 1850 that America's world had turned unheroic. Thomas Carlyle felt that "Ballot-boxes and Electoral suffrages" might prove a fatal threat to heroes. Americans today find heroism daily in Viet Nam and high courage in a thousand situations, from space to civil rights. And yet there is a widespread feeling that the leap of imagination that makes heroes and the generosity of spirit that acknowledges them are disappearing. Can there be real heroes in a time of the computer...
...cautious move away from the rigidity of the past has produced some violent outcries. Last week the Prime Minister was grilled mercilessly at a press conference by hostile Indian newsmen who seemed determined to prove that she was, in effect, deserting her father's sacrosanct doctrines. "We have liberalized private investment for some things which we consider essen tial," she snapped. "Mostly to do with the production of food. We are not going to give in on any other point...
Regardless of what the drug's effects on memory may prove to be, says Dr. Cameron, it "opens the way to an almost limitless exploration of new methods of modifying this extraordinary system whereby we can bring forward continually the experiences of the past to modify present actions and future plans." Beyond that, he foresees the possibility of a wholly new system of medicine, based not on conventional drugs and surgery but on the RNA-mediated "memory" inside every one of the body's trillions of cells...
Intraparty Clawing. Some hopefuls figure that opposition to the war may nonetheless prove the open-sesame to office-despite powerful evidence to the contrary in Oregon last month, where Democrat Robert Duncan won a hand some victory in the senatorial primary by strongly supporting the Administration on Viet Nam. Most of the antiwar candidates, however, are underdogs, who have taken heart from the 7% decline (to 47%) since April in nationwide approval of Lyndon Johnson's execution...
...ultimately, the Library's greatest impact may prove to be on the daily life of Harvard Square. Though this plan have not yet been made public, architect I.M. Pei has said that he is considering placing University buildings, low-rent offices for student organizations, and stores run any local merchants on the site...