Word: reuel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Indeed, the conclusions of the CDC report are "inferential," concedes Epidemiologist Reuel Stallones of the University of Texas, who contributed to a 1980 report from the National Academy of Sciences that found the human health hazards of antibiotic feeds "neither proven nor dis-proven." But, he adds, "this is the best evidence I've seen up to this time that human illness is somehow linked to the use of antibiotics in animals for growth promotion. This study draws the net much tighter around the issue, but it is still a net, not a rope.'' -By Anastasia Toufexis...
...sociologist as moralist peaked in the late '40s and '50s. Americans who had endured the pangs of the Depression and wartime rationing enjoyed an unprecedented feast of goods and services. Focusing on the problems of affluence more than on its benefits, Scholars David Riesman, Reuel Denney and Nathan Glazer published The Lonely Crowd. More lightly credentialed observers got into the act. Books such as The Organization Man, Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and The Status Seekers became bestsellers to a "we" generation confused about keeping up with the Joneses...
...roots to understanding this problem may lie in a dichotomy emphasized over 25 years ago by David Reisman, Nathan Glazer and Reuel Denney in The Lonely Crowd. In this study of the changing American social character, the authors identified traits of two opposing social characters: those they called "inner-directed" and those deemed "other directed." The inner-directed person, they said, "tends to think of work in terms of non-human objects," wanting money or power or fame or some other tangible reward for performance, and seeing and experiencing things primarily "in terms of technological and intellectual processes...
Died. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 81, creative mythologer and author of the immensely popular The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit (see BOOKS...
...white magician who made all this possible was an Oxford professor of Old and Middle English, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, who died last week at the age of 8 1 . Knowing that an imaginary world must be realistically equipped down to the last whisker of the last monster, Tolkien put close to 20 years into the creation of Middle-earth, the three-volume Lord of the Rings and its predecessor, The Hobbit (1938). He also equipped readers with 157 pages of history, appendixes, indexes, tables of consanguinity, and philologically impeccable notes on all the languages, including Elvish and Sindarin, spoken...