Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...open and his eyes stare unblinking. He suppresses a scream and then a wince as horror replaces terror and sorrow replaces horror on his face. Later, when Treves displays Merrick before the audience of physicians, he must describe, in detail, his physical distortions. Hopkins delivers these lines quickly, his short clipped sentences and detached, analytical tone fighting the emotion that threatens to crack his voice...
...short, the stuff of which sociology theses are made...
...commercial networks long gave science short shrift, except when it came to moon landings or Mr. Wizard-like kiddie shows. Now they too are moving into expanded coverage. ABC has a possible science series for next year, an offshoot of 20/20 tentatively titled Quest. At CBS, programmers are considering whether to give Walter Cronkite's Universe, an occasional half-hour science news show that has got a moderately good reception, a regular evening time slot. One factor that will surely affect the decision: the response of viewers to Sagan's Cosmos...
...most interesting of the new productions, however, is the one by the least known composer. Bach, 42, a professor of music at Northern Illinois University in De Kalb, Ill., had written only one opera before The Student from Salamanca, but he clearly knows what he is doing. Using two short Cervantes works, which he put into words himself, he has created an amusing variation on an old theme: the young wife, the old husband and the handsome young man who comes along to complicate their lives...
That is certainly not the case. Most Americans are dependable and forthright-most of the time. Enough people fall short of square dealing, however, to have left Americans a keen hunger for someone to trust. While political lying may have entered an "era of mass production," as Critic Robert Adams says in Bad Mouth, the problem of deception goes far beyond politics. Many people in academia, in science, in engineering, in medicine, in law, in the crafts-all have been caught in the act of exercising the scruples of a fly-by-night lightning-rod salesman. Skulduggery turns...