Word: considerable
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Indeed, I would say that during the seventies, the United States has grown more truculent, more xenophobic, and more cut off from the rest of the world--though it is by no means the nation in defeat or retreat many claim it to be. On the contrary, as the sale...
Ten years ago, Jerzy Kosinski wrote a short novel about an idiot gardener who does nothing but watch TV, tend to his plants, eat and sleep. His screenplay for Being There could hardly be more faithful to the novel. According to Kosinski's metaphorical fable, the TV-idiot, Chauncey Gardiner...
This journalistic ethic, the "if it's there we print it" attitude that Woodward crows so feistily, is mere bravado. In the first place, the book could conceivably hurt the court's ability to enforce its will in some important cases. Although the authors are quick to point out that...
The notion that if a trait is genetic it is ineradicable or unmodifiable is, in fact, quite unscientific. Yet, consider the words "predetermined by biological fact" found on the cover of On Human Nature, or the quote, "We are bound as inextricably to our heritage as we are to the...
Lastly, but not least, in Mr. Tooby's defense of sociobiology, he resorts to the time-honored tradition of red-baiting. If the technical inaccuracies in the body of his letter fail to raise questions about the nature of the theory he defends, then surely his slurs about radical politics...