Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the 1940s, the mean global surface temperature has fallen only about 1° F. But even this small drop has trimmed a week to ten days from the growing season in the middle latitudes that are the earth's breadbasket. Continued cooling could lead to agricultural disasters. The vaunted "miracle" wheat and rice of the Green Revolution were specifically created by plant geneticists to thrive under the optimum growing conditions of recent years. They are particularly vulnerable to vagaries of weather. A decline in moisture can significantly reduce their yields; they can also become susceptible to blights...
...study will re-examine and improve the quality of undergraduate education, and could take on the dimensions of the "redbook" committee of the 1940s which formulated the present General Education system...
...Cooder has no gruesomely elaborate stagecraft or lifestyle, and his work is not the sort that goes down easily with Carly Simon fans or Elton John aficionados. His music is elegantly eclectic, running from Leadbelly and Sleepy John Estes blues numbers through main-line ballads of the 1940s to reggae and rock 'n' roll. "Ry's pure," says a record producer who has worked with him. "He's scrupulous in everything he does. He's never false or stagey...
...general, the production is above the level of the usual Loeb Ex fare. Director Chris Harding has kept up a brisk, fast-talking pace that is well-suited to the play's 1940s flavor, and the production staff has worked wonders, considering the Ex's limited budget. The set for Brock's "$235-dollar-a-day" hotel suite comes complete with foliage, statuary, and Louis XIV furniture. And the costume crew seems to have had a ball decking out Billie in sequins, feathers, fake fur and silver lame...
Died. Miriam Young, 62, novelist (Heaven Faces West) and children's book writer whose bestselling autobiography about life with her vaudevillian parents (Mother Wore Tights) was turned into one of Hollywood's most extravagant movie musicals of the 1940s; of cancer; in Lake Katonah...