Word: scales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...measure as IQ might have a genetic distribution similar to that found for other traits. The real problem lies in placing value judgments on the presence or absence of a particular trait. Who can really say which human characteristics will prove most advantageous to mankind over the evolutionary scale of time...
...composer growing bored with his longtime inamorata (Julie Andrews). His discontent takes the form of an obsession with a lovely creature (Bo Derek) whom he briefly glimpses in bridal gown and veil on her way to her wedding and ranks at the top of the familiar l-to-10 scale...
This year's trip to Cornell was destined to be an order on the scale of a pilgrimage. After deciding that driving four hundred-plus miles to see Schoellkopt Field's polyurethane carpet was too much to ask of any sane being. I opted for the airplane route...
Little in these stories could warn you that their author had a flair for the mock-epic that shaped his full-length works, The Ivankiad and The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin. These tales are small-scale, under-written, you might even say unambitious--but only if you were willing to argue that portraying fairly simple characters economically and sympathetically is an unworthy ambition...
...real show was inside, however, and what a show it was. Audience and TV viewers alike were treated to a full-scale display of all the elements that can make opera truly grand: a masterpiece of the repertory-Verdi's Otello-opulent staging, brilliant conducting by Met Music Director James Levine, and a cast of top singers giving a blazing performance...