Word: topicalism
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...When his efforts at containing communism through legislation failed, Lynch decided to meet the professors on their own turf. In December, 1950 a debate was held in Emerson Hall between Lynch and alleged reducator, History Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38. The topic was "How to Combat Communism...
Along with defining a thesis topic, the conversion in college served to define Nenneman's future career...
...Returning to the topic of his thesis, conversion and Christian Science, Nenneman is also the author of two books on his religion. While at the Monitor, he wrote a book on the Christian Science faith from a late twentieth century perspective, and in retirement he wrote a biography of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the faith...
...other countries are interested in what you think and who you are. The upshot is a state that confidently and pragmatically goes about its business--even though much of that business is on the mainland. To wander through Taipei or tour the countryside is to realize that the hoary topic of reunification is not so much an issue as an irrelevance, a political parlor game fraught with linguistic and semantic tricks played out in Beijing, Washington and Taipei...
...slog away at another, that doesn't alter their basic orientation. "It's possible to change almost any human behavior," says geneticist Dean Hamer of the National Institutes of Health. "But changing the underlying mechanism is a different matter." A study presented at the same convention addressed the same topic and found that of 202 homosexuals who sought to change, 178 failed. Spitzer stands by his findings and insists they should never be used to justify coercive or discriminatory treatment of gays. In a culture in which homosexuals already face so much of both, however, his work certainly doesn...