Word: surprisingness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Back in the early 1960s, two Southern California optometrists named Stuart Grant and Charles May learned of a surprising effect in patients they had fitted with contact lenses. The patients had been given the lenses to correct myopia, or nearsightedness, a condition that usually gets worse rather than better. Yet...
It must have been the weather. On the heels of a surprising 9-0 victory over the Bermuda All-Stars during spring break, the Harvard rugby club could only split a pair of contests last Saturday with the Amherst Lord Jeffs.
For background music, the producers rented a tape from Samuel French of the Peter Link score for the original production (although it is not credited in the program), and what was modest and tuneful from a handful of peasant-outfitted musicians on Broadway here sounds like corny, department-store Muzak...
The difference of opinion is not surprising, given the two men's personalities and backgrounds. Vance is a low-key lawyer who has always been most comfortable-and most effective-working quietly behind the scenes. The Polish-born Brzezinski was a pyrotechnic lecturer at Harvard and Columbia and is...
Through the material Gornick extracts from the interviews, she presents a fairly standard interpretation of the Party's appeal in the '30s, when many of her subjects signed on. Time and time again, the former Party members recall the Depression, the Spanish Civil War and the rise of European fascism...