Word: distinguished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impermanence. The nation's creative forces, however, remain remarkably strong - in the sciences, for example, where achievements in physics, mathematics, biology and medicine rank beside anything so far accomplished on the planet. Before anyone tries to use too seriously the awful and thrilling word decadence, he ought to distinguish between the customary mess of life and the terminal wreckage of death...
...Albuquerque, may just reflect different local mores. As New York Criminal Court Judge Harold Rothwax says, "Communities have a right to view crime differently." Mandatory sentences set by the legislature, which several states use for at least some crimes, can be more heavy-handed than evenhanded. Such laws cannot distinguish, for instance, between someone who steals to feed his family and someone who steals for excitement or easy money. But if discretion is something judges need to make the punishment fit the crime or the criminal, it is also something they too often abuse...
Hanover Street stars two highly attractive actors, Harrison Ford and Lesley-Anne Down, as well as the genteel Christopher Plummer in the role of the heroine's betrayed husband. The movie has three types of scenes: briefing scenes, bombing scenes and tearoom scenes. Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish among them because every set in the film, indoors and out, is flooded with mist. The sound track is inundated with John Barry's crashing score, next to which Michel Legrand's florid music for Summer of '42 sounds like Hindemith. Yet the plot does somehow manage...
...Lyman, is Horner's increased clout in policymaking decisions since the 1977 clarifying agreement. "We (the Board) are all here to support her, and Matina is heard. She's got to be heard." Horner now sits in on many of Harvard's policymaking committees--but she's quick to distinguish between policy-and decision-making. "Policy's not day-to-day management," she notes, "but it's now clearer that Radcliffe is not under Harvard but has an equal responsibility for its students...
...more than all other colleges combined. Essentially, the book is a 237-page collection of odd quotes, bizarre statistics, dull ancedotes, and drivel. The author strikes a particularly banal chord when he tries to add some organization to his endless list of alums. At one point, he tries to distinguish the difference between the proto-Harvard man--one whose ancestors also attended the school-- and the neo-Harvard man. From there, he somehow gets around to talking about the fact that Harvard produced such diverse individuals as Danial Ellsberg and McGeorge Bundy (Lopez naturally doesn't tell you that Bundy...