Word: topically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fourth annual Ann Radcliffe lecture. Her bearing and quick movement have a vaguely French aura, her low-pitched, melodic voice has a clear-cut, British vibrancy--but she is a South African by birth and by choice. Her name is Nadine Gordimer, her profession is writing, and her topic will be "The Novel and the Nation--South Africa...
...these initial obstacles are overcome, the volunteer usually finds one good topic for conversation--memories; eventually he will probably ask the patient about her family and her past experiences, and some patients have much to say in return. But there is a problem--almost all the women in ward E-3 are chronic schizophrenics, and their memories may have little connection with reality. Over long years of hospitalization, they have discarded experiences which they cannot face, and their minds have substituted huge barriers of fantasy...
Kissinger's second major theme is the Western Alliance. On this topic, no longer shielded by expertise, he is more vulnerable to lay criticism. He calls, essentially, for three things: (1) strengthening of the NATO alliance, accompanied by an integration of diplomatic policy, (2) bringing nuclear weapons partly under NATO control (with NATO participating in arms control discussions as a unit), and (3) unification of Germany, probably as a military neutral, but closely tied economically to NATO...
During his Fall Term sabbatical at the University of Amsterdam, Pappenheimer plans to study the broad topic of oxidative phosphorylation. Of particular interest to him is ATP, the major energy-storing compound of the living cell. ATP is involved in the cytochrome oxidizing processes mentioned above. Thus, Pappenheimer's work at Amsterdam will probably yield additional information concerning his old friend, diphtheria toxin...
...chief purposes of History courses is to teach students what happened over a fairly long period, 100 years or so. Yet a good paper entails concentrating on a very limited topic over a very short time. Only a comprehensive final examination can require students to integrate the whole range of facts in the course. It is not surprising that some of the hardiest supporters of examinations come from the History Department...