Word: though
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...look now, but the Harvard soccer team has won two games in a row. Shocking though it may seem, the Crimson shut out Dartmouth 2-0 yesterday afternoon on the Business School Field to even their record at 3-3-1 and in all probability, climb into the New England...
...interests of a large number of groups. To achieve it, any special claims Israel can make on the conscience of the world have to be obliterated. So Israel and the Jews are smeared with racism--the impulse that lay at the roots of the Holocaust--even though those doing the smearing are well aware that the charge of racism is completely unfounded...
...same Wilson described. As the Cuban and his anti-Israel allies use ever more excessive hyperbole to subtlely undermine Israel's moral right to exist, they render real genocide commonplace. At first glance, statements such as Castro's and those of the U.N. anti-Zionist resolution seem trivial. Though their claims are patently false--the Israeli's have not herded Palestinian Arabs into a Dachau or a Treblinka, nor have they set up their own apartheid system based on the idea that Jews and Arabs are different species of humanity--Israel's attackers seem merely to rewrite history for parochial...
Generally, you can't but leave the book with a rudimentary understanding of some of the contemporary beliefs and trends in astronomy. And Sagan conscientiously avoids littering the narrative with autobiography--though that will doubtless come in a couple of years. Then there's his imagination: Broca's Brain reaches it greatest heights when he unleashes it fully, describing, for instance, the prospect of a solar sailing regatta...
...these recommendations, though, can't compete with Sagan's and his editor's mistakes. The main problem lies in Broca's Brain's construction. Sagan strings loosely together 25 of his essays--published in everything from Physics Today to Holiday magazine--only one of which is more than 15 pages long. The book is hence painfully disjointed; he leaps from topic to topic at random. Redundancy creeps in--a theme introduced in one essay is often uselessly repeated in a second, and not infrequently beaten into the ground in a third. Most seriously, though, these essays are just too short...