Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attitude, perhaps deriving from the modesty which preserved the college during years of Harvard hostility to educating women, has left any number of current female undergraduates wondering both what Radcliffe does for them and what its existence does for women's education in general. Responses to the first query seem debatable, but the latter question does have answers buried under Radcliffe's apparent coyness...
...light of this uncertainty, and the unprecedented carcinogenicity displayed by EDB in the NCI animal study, it would seem that Ware and Vaida were taking temporary chances with other peoples' health, for the sake of an introductory chemistry lab. Their decision disregarded NCI's conclusion that its findings indicate a potential threat to human health...
...particular, FM stations seem to have decided that the best cut from Are We Not Men? is the group's sterile rendition of "Satisfaction." What was a fevered shout of desperate frustration in the hands of Mick Jagger et al becomes a mechanical exercise under Devo's influence. The song itself de-evolves--it loses the anger and humanity of the lead vocals, the power of the rhythm guitar, the pulse of the heavy drum beat; it becomes lobotomized. Devo probably intended all this when they recorded "Satisfaction" this way--but that doesn't make the track any less dull...
Music like this won't seem all that hard to swallow for New York audiences accustomed to the freakish, but will Devo play in Peoria? Actually, Devo comes from Peoria--or, to be more precise, from Akron, which is probably worse. At least the band thinks so. Life in places like Akron--the factory routine, the Big Macs, the repression of natural instincts--may not literally "de-evolve" people, but it probably induces the social equivalent. The scientific basis for de-evolution seems pretty slim, but if you ignore the theory's crackpot side and think...
...some fundamental ways, there's overlap in the goals of MLP and Black Rose," Kotell said. "But I felt uncomfortable with various right-wing priorities a lot of people had in the party. They just concentrated on money matters. They don't seem to see that they're saying it's wrong for the government to do certain things, but it's O.K. for General Motors. A hierarchical system of authority is just as bad in IBM as it is in government. They're not talking about how various attitudes are bad no matter who has them...