Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turning this essay into a play. But the adapter is having predictable problems. "I can write about her," he says. "That's perfectly straightforward. But I have to find a story that I can tell about myself. And revealing things about yourself is so difficult." It's an easy trick for the typical contemporary author; every sentence is an advertisement for himself. But Bennett is discreet-which these days amounts to literary heroism...
...currently popular genetic model of mental disorder has much hearsay but little scientific evidence to support it. Never has any identifiable inheritance pattern--certainly not a straightforward, classical (Mendelian) one--been documented for any disorder or behavioral trait, including manic-depressive illness (MDI); every much-ballyhooed claim for "genetic markers" of MDI has been quietly retracted as a result of further unbiased scientific study. A renowned geneticist, Harvard's Evan Balaban, terms "behavioral genetics" research a "hierarchy of worthlessness...
This constant canvassing of public sentiment, one of two basic kinds of hyperdemocracy, is a straightforward outgrowth of information technology. The second basic kind -- the one more specifically linked to gridlock and to the budget deficit -- is a bit more subtle and more pernicious. And like the first one, it ultimately gets back to Madison. In addition to his dread of mass "passions," Madison had a second nightmare about "pure democracy": it "can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction...
...think it's a combination of adjustments--we're not a multidimensional team," Coach Frank Sullivan said after Harvard's 73-65 loss at Dartmouth. "We've got a very straightforward way that we play the game based on the capabilities of our guys...
Cambridge police officials said they could not release details of Kantor's career on the city force. But police officers say Kantor was liked and well-known among police for an unusually straightforward, honest style...