Word: turnabout
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...turnabout is complete. in 1969, the University was so threatened that a group of vigilante professors set up a round-the-clock guard in Widener Library to protect the books and catalog. Early this year, when The Crimson held its centennial celebration a Crimson editor from the Class of '70 sent his check for the dinner with a note on embossed stationary from Washington magazine where he works. In fountain pen script, the note started: "My wife, Debbie, and I..." The turnabout is complete...
...Inconsistency. Only a few years ago, France's General de Gaulle was still breaking the ice for the West in Moscow. Now that the thaw is on, Europeans have performed a complete turnabout. Where they once damned the U.S. for risking war because of its cold war policy, they now go out of their way to pick apart Washington's motives for seeking a détente. Complaints about allowing Moscow to consolidate its hold on Eastern Europe are partly unrealistic: it has been evident for years that very little-short of war-can be done to dislodge...
...startling turnabout dates from 1970, when the former public relations man died. Richard P. Sanger, 42, became president and editor in chief, and John G. Craig Jr., 39, became executive editor. Both had risen through the ranks; both had suffered restrictions that discouraged criticism of the Du Pont family, company and philanthropies. Because his wife is connected to the Du Ponts, Sanger may have struck company officials as safe. "If they thought that," Sanger says, "they made a mistake...
Drag. This turnabout sounds like something that might have been thought up and then discarded by Kilgore Trout, the seedy science-fiction writer who skulks through the novels of Kurt Vonnegut. Its spinning out does not amount to much unless the reader is unusually titillated by characters in drag. The novel's plot involves a pretty secretary named Georgie who at first accepts man's lot-being pawed by his boss and whistled at by foul-mouthed female construction workers-and then gradually rebels, fleeing to the Maine woods with a winsome and similarly disaffected FBI girl named...
...part, the turnabout came from an increasing awareness of the environmental ravages that seem to accompany technological advance. On a more philosophical level, the reversal is the result of a new mood of skepticism about the quantifying, objective methods of science. Moreover, there has begun to emerge, even within the laboratory, a new fascination with what traditionalists consider the very antithesis of science: the mystical and even irrational. Says Harvard Biologist-Historian Everett I. Mendelsohn: "Science as we know it has outlived its usefulness...