Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite 20 years after Stalin's death, a Soviet scholar has produced the most comprehensive and revealing investigation of Stalinism ever to appear anywhere. Roy Medvedev, 46, is a schoolteacher turned historian. Like his twin brother, the prominent geneticist Zhores, he is a dedicated Communist and patriot, who believes in Marxism-Leninism and its vision of the future.* When he set about writing Let History Judge, Medvedev was motivated neither by disillusionment with the Bolshevik experiment nor by a desire to discredit the present regime. What he wanted, instead, was to enlighten fellow Soviet Communists about 50 years...
...Maybe I need a son to even things up, because I'm out of shape," said Muhammad Ali when his twin daughters were born 16 months ago-making three girls for the Alis. But even females can help out with the roadwork, as Jamillah and Reeshemah discovered in Zurich, Switzerland, where the ex-champ was training for his Boxing Day exhibition match with West German Heavyweight Jurgen Blin...
...well at the altar by himself. The production -attractively staged, dramatically paced-has delighted everybody: audiences, critics and-through Davis' simultaneously released Philips recording-listeners on both sides of the Atlantic. Davis suits tempo to text and voice to orchestral volume in a way that captivatingly illuminates the twin ingredients that make Mozart's music the miracle that it is -the hushed fury at its core, the tripping joy at its surface...
...heredity. The study reveals that while House members entered Harvard from a wide variety of cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, by the time they graduate from Dunster House 95 per cent of them think, dress and smell exactly the same, Meanwhile Professor Herrnstein appears in TV commercials to explain how twin studies show conclusively that in the hereditary meritocracy the top 20 per cent will drive Oldsmobiles...
...reading the article I now suppose that he lumped together all of the twin studies. If I made a mis-statement in this respect it was caused by Dr. Herrnstein's failure to mention those I.Q. scores of those twins that differed by 19 and 24 points. George Purvin