BigBook Step2

1. In the british theater under thirty-five have not had much trouble getting recognition onstage, but offstage - in the ranks of playwrights, directors, designers, administrators - they have mostly been relegated to relative obsurity.

2. An institution concerned about its reputation is at the mercy of the actions of its members, because the misdeeds of individuals are often used to discredit the institutions of which they are a part.

3. Since many casual smokers develop lung cancer and many heavy smokers do not, scientists believe that individuals differ in their susceptibility to the cancer-causing agens known to be present in cigarette smoke.

4. We accepted the theory that as people become more independent of one another, they begin to feel so isolated and lonely that freedom becomes a negative condition that most will seek to escape.

5.If animal parents were judged by human standards, the cuckoo would be one of nature's more feckless creatures, blithely laying its eggs in the nests of other birds, and leaving the incubating and nurturing to them.

6. The current penchant for touting a product by denigrating a rival, named in the adventisement by brand name, seems somewhat foolhardy: suppose the consumer remembers only the rival's name?

7. His imperturbability in the face of evidence indicating his deliberate fraud failed to reassure supporters of his essential probity; instead, it suggested a talent for guile that they had never suspected.

1. Although providing wild chimpanzees with food makes them less shy and easier to study. it is also known to disrupt their normal social patterns.

2. There is something incongruous about the way the building of monasteries proliferated in eighteenth-century Bavaria while in the rest of the Western would religious ardor was diminishing and church building was consequently declining.

3. Because they had various meanings in nineteenth century biological thought, "mechanism" and "vitalism" ought not to be considered univocal terms; thus I find the recent insistence that the terms had single definitions to be entirely erroneous.

4. Many Americans believe that individual initiative epitomized the 1890's and see the entrepreneur as the personfication of that age.

5. Neither the ideas of philosophers nor the practices of ordinary people can, by themselves, transform reality; what in fact changes reality and kindles revolution is the interplay of the two.