Word: 1970s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Terwilliger School used to lie across the street from pasture land. Times change. Now grazing cows have been replaced by a Burger King. Mrs. Shaak's Life and Death classroom at first looks like just another concrete-and-glass modular unit of 1970s education. Scrawled student papers cover the walls, but they are not quite the usual exercises. On a sort of bulletin board the children have posted their own epitaphs inside crudely drawn tombstones. Nicole Carpenter writes...
...later to fight for custody of the child. What happens to this story onscreen is something else again. Though Kramer is satisfying as a timeless tragedy about marital and parental love, it also travels across a minefield of contemporary social issues. The characters are very much citizens of the 1970s; their troubles illuminate the cutting edge of an era when all the old definitions of marriage and family have been torn apart...
Over the past ten years an estimated 15,000 new religious books have been published. The liberal Protestant weekly Christian Century asked 89 of its scholarly reviewers which titles from the 1970s "most deserve to survive." Last week it offered their top-of-the-decade choices in order of votes received...
...Congress. Joining the committee for a Safe Nuclear Policy while still in high school in the 1950s, she worked for the Fred Harris campaigns in Oklahoma in 1963 and 1965, against the Viet Nam war, for low income housing in New York City, for community controlled daycare in the 1970s. And she held a full-time job and raised a family at the same time. When her children went to public school she ran successfully for school board, built up a neighborhood base, and ran as a progressive candidate for state assembly. She lost narrowly, but friends and political allies...
...agitation, Moscow, Kiev and Vilnius, KGB operatives over the past two weeks have arrested four prominent dissidents and searched the homes of several others. The moves mean a further thinning of Soviet dissident ranks already greatly diminished by the deportation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Amalrik in the mid-1970s and the trials and imprisonment of Yuri Orlov and Anatoli Shcharansky, among others, in 1978. The movement's sole internationally known survivor is Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, who last week condemned the new arrests as "a calculated blow by the organs of repression...