Word: reader
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...remote, secretive and rather unpopular, with few interests outside their fields. The two sides disagreed most sharply on whether scientists had a strong sense of right and wrong. Generally, scientists affirmed that they "would stop their work if they thought it was harmful." But nonscientists were skeptical. Said one reader: "When I think of a scientist, I think of intellectual curiosity triumphing over moral responsibility...
...story of Stephen S.J. Hall's palm reader is already a legend. It will be told and retold at least as long as Hall remains at Harvard and probably even after he leaves his post here to return to private industry. The story's popularity says more about Hall than its own anecdotal value, because it seems to sum up what people don't like about Harvard's vice president for administration...
Boston's stubborn resistance to busing is largely based in Irish-Catholic working-class neighborhoods such as South Boston and Charlestown, where whites want little to do with what they perceive as the alien and threatening culture of inner-city blacks. Says Maurice Gillen, a meter reader for Boston Edison and a community leader...
...even able to see most of the unpublished correspondence between Schliemann and Sophia. But the book's main flaw is that it observes Schliemann solely through the eyes of a wife who never saw him until he was middleaged. Novelizing thus gets in the way of biography; the reader is on hand for the exciting excavation scenes, but not for the development of a mind as rich and extraordinary as Troy itself...
...Cate occasionally overstates his case, he does not stack the evidence. All the pieces of the puzzle are there. The reader must put it together if he wants to find the answer to Balzac's potentially prophetic question: "What will become of the world when all women are like George Sand...