Word: 1970s
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...come,” she said. “I will regard it as both my privilege and responsibility to work together with a new dean to support implementation of a new curriculum.”Interim President Derek C. Bok, who oversaw the last curricular overhaul in the 1970s, praised the results of this review.“I really do believe that in the last two years this Faculty has made a more comprehensive effort to improve the quality in undergraduate education than anything that has happened in the history of this University,” he said.General...
...also a sign that McCain, like many people, did not fully understand how much the evangelical landscape had changed since Falwell first arrived back in the 1970s to reshape it. The current climate exists both because and in spite of him: no one did more to usher fundamentalist Christians into the political arena, but he could not control what happened once they got there...
Interim President Derek C. Bok, who oversaw the last curricular overhaul in the 1970s, praised the results of this review...
...Falwell's views on that would change. By the mid-1970s, he was big enough to lure the attention of Jimmy Carter, who was openly courting faith- minded voters in his own campaign for president. But Falwell cooled on Carter and within a year or two of his election turned hostile. In 1979, he started the Moral Majority, partly at the urging of two Republican political consultants. In 1980, Falwell moved the organization behind Ronald Reagan, buying anti-Carter ads on tiny radio stations across the South and Midwest...
...match Bennett for sumptuousness - Encores! revivals are staged with just the hint of scenery - but he found so much meaning and ache in the show that it didn't matter. Stripped of its finery, Follies was now pure and profound. He also seamlessly integrated the older stars playing the 1970s characters with the young actors playing their 1940s incarnations, cheerful and naive, committing the one forgivable sin of youth: to hope...