Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mundane "Spock pinch," and continually confronted the fluctuations of Kirk's human emotions with rigorous Vulcan rationality. Even though he often sparred verbally and physically, with Kirk and Leonard "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley), the crusty old ship's surgeon from Georgia, Spock demonstrated that his heart was in the right place (about where the liver is in humans...
...They were ready for us," Harvard coach Joe Bernal said afterwards, "and we saw some great early-season performances. I was really pleased with the way we came back right away after the relay, especially considering how many freshmen we have on the team...
Winger Sara Fischer played a scrappy game, but she failed to sneak the puck past the Northeastern netminder. Coach Rita Harder said after the game she thinks moving Fischer--a right-handed player--from left to right wing "made her feel a little more at home...
...nothing so much as the recent case of the New England seer who foretold the burning of a factory and then went and set the fire. This seems a different category of prophecy than that people usually evince pride in. The use of sociobiology by the European New Right is the direct result of and responsibility of Science for the People and others who have misrepresented this diverse and complex field. Science for the People has used every sort of distortion and misrepresentation to make what is in fact an arbitrary and manufactured connection between sociobiology and reactionary political idology...
...confrontational nature of recent history has developed in some individuals on the left (and the right) an appetite for self-righteous hatred and self-dramatizing "unmaskings." In these individuals, the urge to feed this appetite has grown stronger than the impulse to honestly scrutinize the object of the attack to see if it is warranted. Sociobiology has a few faint and superficial resemblances to "Social Darwinism," as far as I can tell, limited to the use of the term "Darwinism." Every other aspect is profoundly different. They bear the same relationship to each other as phrenology does to neuroanatomy. Anyone...