Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America, and its new wing marks what may be the final phase in the competition for modernist icons. Quite a few of the privately owned works that Lieberman was assumed to have lined up for MOMA at the end of his 34 years of curatorial service there now seem to be pointed at the Met. Over the next few years, the battle of the codicils and the wooing of art widows should prove quite intense...
...alternatives work? That depends on what they are asked to accomplish. If the goal is cost efficiency, the answer is a qualified yes. They often seem cheap enough, but there are concerns that they may actually add to the bill for corrections because judges will use them as a halfway measure to keep a rein on people who would otherwise go free in plea bargains. James K. Stewart, director of a Justice Department research institute, contends that the cost to society of crimes committed by those not imprisoned must be factored in as well. For certain offenders, Stewart concludes, "prison...
...prison capacity is not exceeded by the total number of inmates. The crime rate has not increased, supporters boast. Other states remain far more hesitant. Still, the present pressures may yet bring a day when the correctional possibilities will be so varied and so widely used that prison will seem the "alternative" form of punishment...
...truth by totally assimilating himself into christendom. The other chooses separatism by going to Israel. One marries a shiksa and the other goes to Israel and becomes a fanatical Zionist. But in neither case does Roth--the master puppeteer behind all the levels of unreality at work here--seem satisfied with the answers the two brothers provide to the dilemma of Jewishness in the modern world...
...might seem a long way from studying wasps to studying sex, but applied biology graduate student Alfred C. Kinsey '20 apparently learned about the importance of rigorous scientific methods of classification while writing "Studies of Gall Wasps (Cynipidae, Hymenoptera)." He later applied these methods of classification to his famous Kinsey Reports: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, published in 1948, and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, published in 1953. The Kinsey Reports have frequently been called the first scientific examination of American sexual behavior...