Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Snow says: "Scientists regard it as a major intellectual virtue to know what not to think about." Complains one S.R.I, spokesman: "The society we live in doesn't give you permission to have psychic abilities. That is one reason that so much talent is suppressed." As Martin Gardner believes, "Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses...
...Lana has learned about 75 words-which her trainers regard as only a start. As they teach Lana more words they hope to increase their understanding of how chimps actually learn a language, and to gain new insights into how those skills are acquired by humans. What they learn could eventually be useful in teaching youngsters with language difficulties. It could also open a new channel of communication between man and animal. "Wouldn't you like to know what a chimp thinks about?" says Georgia State University Psychologist Duane M. Rumbaugh...
Harvard's responsibilities towards graduate students are a lot less defined, especially in regard to bread-and-butter issues. Events in past years have made the University increasingly aware that when it admits a graduate student, it admits someone who is financially independent of his or her parents. At issue behind day care at Harvard is the fact that when Harvard admits a graduate student, it very often is "admitting" a family...
Most of the columns are written in stream-of-consciousness style that leaps from notion to notion with scant regard for structure or logic, neither of which is a Frazier forte. Rather, his strength is an unerring eye for targets vulnerable to his wit, delivered in the bilious tones of an aggrieved headmaster. Once in a while he softens with memories of the good old days. He can sentimentalize at length about bar-hopping with Hemingway and Thurber, and pay tribute to Tim Costello, the late keeper of a Manhattan literary saloon, this way: "Without himself, who has been...
...have prepared a face to meet the world and are all the more revealing as a result. Paul Carter's formal view of a tuberculous family in New York is touched with an eerie stillness. But the exchange is certainly marked by what Stryker describes as "a natural regard for human dignity." Says Stryker: "Experts have said to me that's the face of despair. And I say, look again. You see in those faces something that transcends despair...