Word: tools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...novelists with a satirical bent, basing characters on enemies, rivals and unfaithful lovers has provided an accepted tool of revenge. Ernest Hemingway scored in The Sun Also Rises (Harold Loeb, the now-forgotten model for Robert Cohen, was satisfactorily furious, and one of the minor real-life woman characters took to bed for a week). Aldous Huxley did a number on D.H. Lawrence as the brilliantly insufferable crank, Mark Rampion, in Point Counter Point. Political debts have been paid too. One of the first romans à clef, Madeleine de Scudéry's Artamène; ou Le Grand...
Some interesting and normally intelligent actors are involved in this nonsense. Robert Shaw is the master crook, and Martin Ritt, better known as a director (Hud, Sounder, Conrack), plays the Swiss cop who is his nemesis. Jon Voight plays Ritt's assistant - and unwitting tool - while Jacqueline Bisset does time as lover to both Shaw and Voight. Their skills are all frittered aimlessly away in a movie that offers slowness of pace as an earnest of artistic integrity. The only emotion that the audience is likely to work up watching this unconscionable bore is an irresistible desire...
Jaeger, a board member of his family's power tool company and "independently wealthy" as he is wont to say, decided to create an educational alternative to lectures and exams while an undergraduate at Ohio State. "I was looking for something beyond common experience," he explains, "and traveling around the world seemed a good place to start. Later as a grad student at the Harvard Education School, I put together a program for which I could find no precedent. I studied one special school that traveled by ship to various distant ports, but it seemed to me that more...
When word of Bork's brief leaked, Levi insisted that he still had not made up his mind and that he still regards busing as "an appropriate tool" for school integration. Back in Boston, where passions have just begun to cool following a wave of racially motivated violence, Brooke wondered why the Government would involve itself at this time "and confuse the matter." Since the Supreme Court will decide the issue, with or without Justice Department intervention, it seemed an appropriate question...
...Wolbach Library, Art pulls out the sky charts. He flips quickly through a brightly-colored one put out by the Czech Academy of Sciences--"This is mainly just a teaching tool"--pointing out the galactic equator, describing the meaning of different colors. The constellations are carefully boxed off, charting a sky far from anthropomorphic. Art lingers a bit more over a photographic atlas. "These are good pictures," he says, nodding approval. He describes problems people have mapping the sky. "Our galaxy is like a record--really thin and flat--so when you look through the record, you get what...