Word: tracings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...atmosphere of the Widener stacks, Garner suggested. "The thing you're here for is largely the library. The big privilege is to have a book shelf on your stall. You commune more with books than with people. Garner, who is a native of Oklahoma and speaks with the slightest trace of a southern accent, laughed. "But at least I got to see the spring through my Widener window, even if I wasn't a part of it," he said...
...LAST IDOL of the free market Big Mac smashes is that of consumer sovereignty--the freedom to choose from a variety of goods. The burger entourage rolls on, covering over every trace of local color with a uniform circus yellow. Culinary freedom in America is disappearing--what became of the hot dog? And now McDonald's is standardizing the greasy spoon eateries of the world...
...might trace the beginnings of this total-exposure phenomenon to Dwight Eisenhower's two major illnesses during his presidency. First, Ike's heart was examined, chamber by chamber, in prime time. Then, viewers were taken on a tour of his small intestine, the site of his ileitis. In family matters, however, Ike remained aloof. It was John Kennedy who saw that the cozy private world of public men-where they could talk one way and act another-was bound to end. He submitted to the rising demands to know. He opened up, a bit, on his family...
Attempts by sociobiologists to trace human behavior to a genetic basis is due to a fundamental misdirection of their research, Marvin Harris, a cultural anthropologist at Columbia University, said in a lecture at MIT yesterday...
...does he do it? A diminutive (5 ft. 2 in.), sprightly man, Gould is a technician who pays little attention to corporate earnings or the course of the economy. Using millions of figures dating back more than a century, he follows the lines that stock prices and trading volume trace on charts. He bolsters his chart readings with studies in physics (for the laws of motion), music (for rhythm) and crowd psychology. He has evolved his own gauges of the market, including the "speed-resistance line" (a measure of how far and fast prices have risen or fallen...