Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Auchincloss's characters must struggle with this problem, one so hopelessly old-fashioned as to seem brand new. His graceful, straightforward narratives, so conventional in form, convey a rare impression: people behaving as if their actions meant something beyond the swamp of ego and the self...
...moves since then seem logical enough now, but at the time they took some nerve. He began to talk things over with David Sykes, an old friend who teaches a course in entrepreneurship at Boston University. Sykes believed that Rush's fans were still out there, 15 years older and living in better neighborhoods. This audience was still receptive to the music it liked, but not in sports arenas with 20,000 screaming kids...
...Defense Department insists that the cases will hold up. "All the interviews have been conducted in full compliance with the subjects' rights," said Pentagon Spokesman Robert Sims last week. "I know of no reason to believe that any subject was coerced or badgered in any way." Military officials seem unfazed by the retractions. A judge will listen to tapes of the statements and rule on their validity. The account by Williams, says one source, is "extremely detailed . . . far more than imagination...
Nevertheless, at least a third of the 527 members meeting in Washington (the proportion needed to bar an election) seem to have been swayed by Lang's underlying argument that social scientists, however eminent, may not belong to the NAS and perhaps should form an academy of their own. Says one physical scientist: "It's not enough to be excellent. One has to meet the norms of science as well." But that view leaves wide open the question of who, inside the NAS or out, ought to define those norms...
...surroundings. Yet if Klaus Barbie was not "important," his trial is. It can serve a vital purpose, for future generations and for our own. Certain witnesses have to be heard; certain truths have to be uttered, repeated. Will they clarify the mystery of what happened? It does not seem possible. The determination of the killer to kill, the passivity of the bystander are likely to remain incomprehensible. There is something about this Event that eludes rational thought. Only those who were there know what it meant to be there. The others can, at best, come close to the gate. There...