Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chose Robert Ullman's speech, originally submitted for the comic Ivy Oration, as the winner of the serious Harvard oration competition. Ullman is revising his speech, which the Class Day committee members described as "poignant." But he says that the selection makes the quality of his humor a little suspect. He claims that his topic, the story of Morton Zyzford, a real cypher who can't come to terms with Harvard, has a serious message about the importance of success. The overall tone will stay light, he says, adding "It is difficult for me to speak seriously about success. Besides...
...words read better than they actually sound in the film, and unlike many of the movie's other aspects, the lyrics are not what you'd call accessible. But the musings of Baskin do ring true, and you suspect that if Baskin is not a native of the Southland, his experience with the L.A. scene has been both thorough and bittersweet...
...Businessmen also suspect that they will be asked to bear the chief burden of Carter's anti-inflation policies, due out this week (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS), and his energy conservation program, which is expected to be announced next week. These fears are partly responsible for tumbling stock prices and the sluggishness of capital investment. The businessmen want Carter to press Congress harder for an increase in the investment-tax credit to rev up the economy...
Such exhortations worry many liberal arts educators. Not only do they feel the pressure to provide "salable skills," but they also suspect that the traditional liberal arts goal of producing a "wellrounded" graduate has become blurred. The widespread relaxing of course requirements as a result of the turbulent '60s has meant that many students no longer acquire learning in any systematic way outside their major field. "There is a lot of concern about whether liberal arts graduates are as literate as we said they were," admits John Chandler, president of Scripps College...
...been ingesting a wood preservative called pentachlorophenol (PCP)-probably when the animals licked the sides of their feed bins. Because the preservative contains dioxin, a substance related to the highly toxic chemical that has made the Italian town of Seveso uninhabitable, state officials banned sales of PCP and quarantined suspect cattle. No PCP-contaminated milk has reached the state's consumers. But some stores in Michigan have begun advertising that they sell only out-of-state beef...