Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Roth determination not to repeat himself is becoming, in fact, his most famous and only predictable trait. The writer who went from Portnoy's Complaint to political satire (Our Gang), and thence to Kafkaesque fantasy (The Breast) is now so impatient that he cannot even wait to complete this book before trying to reconstruct himself. In My Life as a Man, he switches persona in mid-volume. The result is superb as a performance and uneven as a book (or rather, two books). It leads, finally, to some questions. Does a kind of bravura restlessness now not only characterize...
...Stanford University, startled the scientific world by reporting that he had discovered a way to avoid the reaction that has resulted in the failure of so many transplant operations: the tendency of the body's immune system to destroy foreign tissue. But other scientists were unable to repeat Summerlin's experiments, and skepticism about his results grew steadily. Earlier this spring Summerlin, who had since moved to New York City's Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, was accused by colleagues of painting the skin of some laboratory mice to make it appear that he had successfully...
...parts were removed to immobilize the plane, just in case someone tried to repeat Eisenhauer's stunt in the other direction...
...setting Aristotle in a historical context he inserts him into American experience by likening the philosopher to a "third-rate technical instructor, naming everything, showing the relationships among the things named, cleverly inventing an occasional new relationship... and then waiting for the bell so he can get on to repeat the lecture for the next class...
Strong Chisel. At the outset, it seemed that Metzenbaum would repeat his 1970 performance. There were few policy differences between the two Democrats, although Glenn is basically more conservative than Metzenbaum. The only major contrast was between Metzenbaum, the experienced politician, and Glenn, who had never before been elected to office. But Glenn steadily chipped away with one strong chisel-his Boy Scout image. The result was a decisive victory for Glenn, a plurality of 94,000 out of more than 1,000,000 votes cast...