Word: toole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fall from bourgeois grace, and like so many films by this great surrealist director, it is art of the most subversive kind. Buñuel wants the audience to see the world as he ultimately forces Mathieu to see it-as an irrational state where logic is a worthless tool. In Obscure Object the director never bothers to explain Conchita's stubborn celibacy or any of his story's other absurdities, for he does not believe that any explanations exist. In Buñuel's view, life's visible events are random and misleading; the sooner...
...Inge G. Edler, chief of cardiology at University Hospital in Lund, Sweden, and Biophysicist C. Hellmuth Hertz of the Lund Institute of Technology. Their pioneering accomplishment: the application of ultrasonics to diagnosing abnormalities of the heart. Hailed by the Lasker jurors as perhaps the most important nonsurgical tool for heart diagnosis since the development of the electrocardiograph, the technique uses the familiar sonar echo principle: high-frequency (and inaudible) sound waves reflected from a target reveal its characteristics. Echocardiography can, for example, measure heart-muscle thickness, detect valve abnormalities and even show an image of the heart pumping...
Trivial as some of these matters may seem, Ruth Clusen, president of the League of Women Voters (which often rallies its troops in local battles over ballot issues), declares that the referendum "is the ultimate tool in the hands of the people." Says Fred Button, an expert on voter attitudes: "It's healthy when the public thinks it has a piece of the action. It's a safety valve. The people don't do any better and they don't do any worse than the legislators." Washington-based officials of the U.S. Conference of Mayors tend...
MANY REPORTERS have forgotten the utilitarian motive of the off-the-record tool and wind up confusing the ends with the means. Until some sort of agreement is struck between the reporter and the source, a person doesn't have a "right" not to be quoted. If you don't want it in the press, don't say it. The reporter's first priority is to inform the reader of what is going on in the world; portecting his sources remains a secondary consideration. Only when the latter aids the former should the reporter start worrying about whom to quote...
...record tool which journalists have traditionally used unwillingly and only as a last resort (at least in the age of adversary journalism) is being effectively manipulated by public officials devoted to the secrecy ethic in government. If people like Joseph Nye are not willing to communicate with the members of the Harvard community via the press, then they should never have accepted their posts...