Word: two
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jumped one of the council's most conservative members, veteran city politician Walter Sullivan, and one of its most liberal leaders, Saundra Graham, and for the two minutes the music lasted they boogied together to the cheers of their fellow councilors...
...while there have been grumblings. His colleagues, principally, confront him with their contention that publicizing and practicing science are two irreconcilable aims. So Broca's Brain is an entirely representative work--on the one hand we're treated to Sagan's youthful enthusiasm, imagination, and charm; on the other we must contend with the superficiality and disjointedness which, many claim, have marred his entire career...
There have been objections that political philosophers are too controversial. I myself would be delighted to see two enormous, adjacent craters, called Adam Smith and Karl Marx...
Also entertaining are two short portraits, one of Albert Einstein, the other of Robert Goddard. Broca's Brain was published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Einstein's birth, and the chapter Sagan devotes to him is reflective of the event, brimming with amusing anecdotes and quotes. The portrait of Goddard glows with Sagan's adulation of the great eccentric and pioneer. If there's any problem with these two portraits, in fact, it's that they're almost oo good--you wish you were reading a book by one of the two, instead of just a chapter about...
...answered Kob's first two questions without incident, saying his father was from Brown and he wore Topsiders on feast days. Then the bridgekeeper eyed him sharply and said, "What will you contribute to my Fund Drive...