Word: safes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Toffler, and others like him, serve a purpose, especially on academically pretentious campuses like Harvard. Although obviously an intellectual, Toffler is not a professor, and he is not particularly concerned about tenure or academic respectability. It is probably safe to speculate that Toffler has not read all the important books that you end up reading sooner or later if you hang around New Haven, Cambridge and Berkeley long enough. Nevertheless, Toffler and his breed seem to show striking originality and an absence of timidity which allows them insouciantly to ignore 300 years of social theory and discredit the work...
Sheldon Krimsky, a member of last year's review board, said at last night's meeting, held at the Cambridge City Hospital, that he believes that Biohazards Committee should promote programs for training laboratory workers in safe techniques...
...want to project a positive image," Geoffrey P. Bernstein '80, one of the group's organizers, said yesterday. "We stand for safe, clean, renewable energy like solar and wind power and a diversion of military funds toward meeting social needs...
...Down Two Then Left" doesn't really answer that question in any kind of satisfactory way. It's a spotty album, more or less evenly divided between rather decisive failures when Scaggs plays safe and surprising triumphs when he takes some risks. All in all, the good cuts are much more ambitious and complex than anything on "Silk Degrees," and the bad ones make one wish he'd gone down fighting instead of taking the easy...
...cuts where Scaggs hangs back and plays safe are not particularly outstanding. "A Clue" is pretty and lyrical and at the same time thoughtful and boring; the crashing of cymbals in "We're Waiting" is meaningless and facile; "Tomorrow Never Came" is pure filler. Half of the songs on the album just don't work, and are failures made all the more disappointing by the excellence of the other half of the album. Scaggs may have cut his own throat on this record by not sustaining high standards the whole way through, but if his fans stick with him through...