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...Thurow of M.I.T.: "The drop is too big to be believable." Labor Department statisticians who prepared the report, however, think that if there was an error, it consisted of counting in July some reductions in unemployment that actually occurred in June-which would mean that the drop was less abrupt than it appears, but nonetheless real...
...need to get bizarre or belligerent about them. Exhibit Organizer William J. Hennessey points out in his excellent catalogue (published by the Gallery Association of New York State, which is sponsoring the show) that Wright's aim was to avoid both "forced adherence to past periods" and "the abrupt introduction of unprecedented ideas." He wanted to overcome what he saw as America's cultural inferiority complex by demonstrating that U.S. designers could combine comfort, efficiency and aesthetic pleasure...
...interesting that Stephen Jay Gould's theory that "evolution moves not with geological slowness, as Darwin has insisted, but in abrupt fits and starts, interspersed with long periods of no change in species" has put him at odds with the prevailing Darwinian doctrine. Gould's thesis is simply a way of getting around the absence of the necessary fossil record. In fact, evolution, whether through "geological slowness" or "fits and starts," remains a flawed explanation for all of existence...
White's abrupt exit gladdened the hearts of ten already announced candidates. Inevitably, however, the battle for succession will be fought under the long shadow of King Kevin...
...dewiness of grass in the morning, the dryness of leaves in the evening: nothing is fixed in a schema. Constable became convinced that he must overcome the stasis that convention and idealism produce in art: his project would then be, as he put it, "to arrest the more abrupt and transient appearances of the Chiaroscuro in Nature . . . to give 'to one brief moment, caught from fleeting time' a lasting and sober existence...