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Subsequent events seem to have vindicated both my praises and my final warning: "To survive in the jungle of intellectuals, the sociobiologist had best tread softly in the zones of race and sex." I should also have stressed that critics--myself and others less laudatory--are under a special obligation in this sensitive area to strive for objectivity and civility. Natural scientists are learning the hard way what social scientists have never been allowed to forget, that interests and ideologies have a force of their own, not necessarily conducive to the determination of scientific truth. Paul A. Samuelson Institute Professor
...possible for the old stones and bricks of Harvard Yard, the dormitories, the classrooms, the libraries and the churches, to have witnessed so much over the generations without absorbing a kind of warmth and life of their own--along with several layers of seemingly ineradicable grime. Just to tread across the Yard, basking in that rich past housing a living tradition that no amount of mismanagement and folly can undo is always a moving sensation, even when one faces the constant peril of beaning at the hands of the student body's countless spastic frisbee hurlers...
Across her ravaged face chase self-pity, fear, vanity and - finally - triumph, when she kicks the heel who tried to tread on her. Overshadowed, Christopher Walken plays Chance from the crotch - not inappropriately, consider ing the man's end. The overall impression is of a classy parody of Pal Joey...
Multimillion-dollar movies are usually open to the press as they are being made; their heavy tread can be heard clumping toward the theaters for a year prior to release. Kubrick's locations, however, were closed. Not a single publicity still emerged without the director's express approval, which was almost never granted. Thus the only word on Barry Lyndon came from actors and technicians, none of them privy to Kubrick's vision, and some wearied and literally sickened by his obsessive perfectionism...
...snow tires; on hard-packed snow they perform just as well. Indeed, in Idaho, Texas, Oklahoma and New York City, the GM TPC-Spec radial qualifies as a snow tire. Recently the National Safety Council, after some prodding by GM, announced that tire performance in snow is determined by tread configuration; since the center-tread portion of GM's tire resembles that of a snow tire, its performance presumably would be similar...