Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aptitude as well as in interest, sex differences become apparent early in life. Though girls are generally less adept than boys at mathematical and spatial reasoning, they learn to count sooner and to talk earlier and better. Some scientists think this female verbal superiority may be caused by sex-linked differences in the brain. Others believe it may exist because, as observation proves, mothers talk to infant girls more than to baby boys. But does the mother's talking cause the child to do likewise, or could it be the other way round? Psychologist Michael Lewis suggests the possibility...
...Almanac's authors first met in the mid-1960s as fellow staffers on the Harvard Crimson. Michael Barone, 27, a Democrat who is now a lawyer in Detroit, has been a demographics adept since he was seven. "I can still remember the excitement of coming across the census figures for 1940 and 1950," he says. "It was like nothing else existed." His collaborators: Douglas Matthews, 27, a liberal Republican who is now studying law at Harvard, and Grant Ujifusa, 29, a political independent and third-generation Japanese American, who is now taking a Ph.D. in American civilization at Brown...
Rock Requiem, by Lalo Schifrin (Verve, $5.98). An adept, well-intended tribute to the victims of Viet Nam, unfortunately lacking the snap and originality that Schifrin brings to his commercial Hollywood scores (Mission: Impossible, Mannix...
...real power in his country had long since fallen to the aristocratic Rana family. In 1951, Mahendra and his father King Tribhuvan led a popular revolution that ousted the Ranas, and four years later Mahendra succeeded to both the throne and control of the government. He proved to be adept at foreign affairs and kept Nepal in wary nonalignment between its two powerful neighbors, India and China...
Looking for Leadership. Can collective political power be far behind? At present, the Common Market is politically stagnant, its parliament virtually powerless, its bureaucrats in Brussels more adept at harmonizing the design of milk bottles than at deciding important matters of policy. Ralf Dah-rendorf, one of nine EEC commissioners, accuses the organization of being incapable of recovering the broad political vision of its founders. Guide Carli, head of the Bank of Italy, recently declared that economic development has gone about as far as it can go without further political development. And political development-meaning internal integration and common international...