Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boorstin's tale of democracy gone astray and the defiling of the ideal has the ring of truth to it. He is always persuasive in his demonstration of these failings. His ability to show the historical roots of America's present uninspired attitude toward democracy is worthy of the highest praise. But the reader has a right to expect more from the historian than an explanation which holds that what happened happened because physical circumstance did not allow otherwise...
...Nixon's White House aides from the days of infamy, was indicted last week, a harbinger that Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox's vast apparatus is beginning to gather momentum in the courts. The Hughes money given to Bebe Rebozo for the Nixon campaign has an ominous ring. Is this the end of a dirty shirttail that will show one of the world's richest men to be involved in the scandals of this Administration...
...Violence. Later, Lorenz applied his insights into animal instinct and imprinting to man in a series of popular books, including King Solomon's Ring (1949) and On Aggression (1963). Perhaps his most controversial theory views animal and human aggression as an instinctive drive with a number of useful features. Aggression's ugly side-war and violence-will be selected out of human behavior by the evolutionary "power of human reason...
...have they? With last week's pennant playoffs, baseball suddenly recaptured so much suspense and emotion that Ring Lardner could not have written a better script. Winners of the National League's Western Division were the well-muscled Cincinnati Redlegs, with the best record (99 wins, 63 losses) and some of the mightiest hitters in the league. Up against the Big Red Machine stumbled the New York Mets, living proof that baseball is still a game of inches. Two months ago, Manager Yogi Berra was within inches of losing his job again (the New York Yankees dumped...
Similarly, the issue of Harvard's assistance to the military need not be put off until Army cadets stand at Harvard's gates. Assurances that normal bureaucratic channels will assure thorough debate should the return of ROTC eventually prove imminent ring hollow while Harvard departments continue, even now, to do research related to military technology and the capitalist development of Southeast Asia. We do not need to wait until ROTC's return is certain to ask ourselves what kind of University Harvard should be. A student vote on ROTC would have set a precedent for future years and provided another...