Word: subjects
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Deciding who got those assignments took some creative thought. Elmer-DeWitt was determined to find writers who brought a special expertise to their subject and could also produce graceful prose. NEIL POSTMAN for example, who wrote on TV pioneer Philo Farnsworth, is the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death, an acclaimed study of the impact of television on society. RICHARD RHODES, who profiled nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi, wrote a Pulitzer-prizewinning tome on the making of the atom bomb. Paleoanthropologist DONALD JOHANSON, who discovered the fossil called Lucy, had a long and bumpy relationship with the Leakey family and used...
...Grace, but many advocates have lamented seeing Kevorkian become the poster boy of the issue. "He's too unpredictable and wacky," says Grace. Some hope his removal from the scene may clear the way for calmer arguments. His theatrics have detracted from addressing the wrenchingly difficult issues of the subject, a fact that Kervorkian himself may have sensed when he said Friday that he no longer wanted to represent himself before the court. But his decision came too late to change the outcome, being announced shortly before the jury delivered its verdict...
According to Smith, the Watts family chose to fund a music chair on the basis of their longstanding commitment to the subject...
...real goals of the campaign was to add Faculty members so that we could improve the student-Faculty ratio and so that we could add to the breadth and depth of subject matters that the Faculty can study," Smith said...
...Whether or not this notion is ultimately a romantic construction is a matter for further debate and research, and I thank Yuri for initiating talk on a most important and vital subject...