Word: gibbons
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...House impeachment vote finally did feel historic. But only if you kept in mind just how soiled and cartwheeling real events can be. "History...is indeed little more than a chronicle of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind," wrote Edward Gibbon, author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and a man who died 200 years before Monica Lewinsky met Bill Clinton...
...working out of his great idea that he became a specialist in zoology, taxonomy, geology, paleontology, animal breeding, plant breeding, embryology, animal behavior, human behavior, sociology and ecology (a discipline he essentially created). Einstein, too, was guided in his scientific work by a single vision. So was Edward Gibbon, who described the guiding idea of his multivolume historical and literary masterpiece, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a single short sentence: "I have described the triumph of barbarism and religion." These examples suggest that someone who sets out to answer a broad question and sticks with...
...than a little about how they are made. Substance and method are both essential, and Core courses should not ignore method. But substance must come first. If a work of science, history, literature, or art doesn't capture and hold our interest or evoke a strong aesthetic response, as Gibbon did for Boorstin and Euclid for Einstein, why should we care how it was made...
State House majority leader Davis won a difficult primary runoff. And having spent nearly all his campaign war chest, he welcomed the support he got from Democratic heavies like House minority leader Dick Gephardt and retiring Representative Sam Gibbon, who held this seat for 34 years. Davis opposes school vouchers, saying public education will suffer if money is given to private schools...
BORN: Oct. 28, 1935, Gibbon EDUCATION: U of Nebraska at Kearney, 1958 FAMILY: Wife, Mary Ann; four children RELIGION: Catholic MILITARY: Army, 1955-1956 OCCUPATION: Farmer POLITICAL CAREER: Wood River city council, 1980-1987 ADDRESS: 217 West Second, Grand Island...