Word: seemingly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Others, on the other hand, seem to be part of the present administration's program: Avoid rhetoric tending to raise expectations, give intensive birth-control guidance to the "incompetent poor." intensify police patrol, permit "stop and frisk," "abridge" the freedom of those "extremely likely to commit violent crimes...
...attributes Boorstin gives the standard of living community-"pervasive, re?iprocal, communal, cosmopolitan, universalizing, conspicuous" - form definite patterns of association, a non-political "way of life." The Harris and Gallup polls seem to create order from the vagueness through statistics. Then suddenly, in the last decade, the numbers no longer reflect opinion, but create it. Facts, Boorstin warns, are becoming norms...
Those groups most concerned with a one-to-one ratio in the University seem to be graduate students and alumnae rather than Radcliffe undergraduates...
...week. Pan American World Airways announced that smoking will be banned in three rows of first-class seats and four rows of economy seats aboard its 747 superjets. Unless the aircraft is full, non-smokers will be separated from smokers by a couple of buffer rows. Though it would seem more logical for the smokers to have to seek out special seats, Pan Am's decision at least represented the first recognition of nonsmokers' rights...
Impersonating a Lion. The sensational fizz of the novel made its large flaws seem unimportant. But the big novel loosened Bellow's collar. His next important outburst was Henderson the Rain King (1959). He could not work twice the trick of making literary shapelessness a virtue. And he managed an enormous feat in leading the new novel -wilder and funnier than Augie March -toward resolution. It was one thing to leave young Augie, grinning and scratching his head at the end of the novel. But Henderson, the Yankee millionaire who charges off to Africa in a frenzy of exasperation...