Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truth at Harvard shone from a tarnished setting of cultivated hypocrisy, in contrast to the let-it-all-hang-out confessions of the '70s. Yet, appearances, manners, and feelings are also truths; they can support good, bad, noble, or banal intentions. "A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent," wrote Willian Blake. The issues then, as now, had to do with intention as much as truth, purpose as much as technique, loyalty as much as self-realization...
...column of too familiar TV listings ("5:00, Ch. 3: Enough is Enough/Audrey falls for a swinging swimming pool cleaner and the twins disapprove"), rationalized rape ("Men who dress provocatively are asking for it"), and once dared to dismiss Barry Manilow as "the Mitch Miller of the '70s." Recalls White: "It's been a couple of years since so many nasty letters ended up on my desk. The last time it happened was shortly after I suggested that Queen Elizabeth be named the Best Dressed Woman of 1952. That...
Since the early '70s, Americans have been flirting reluctantly with a complicated and grudging awareness about themselves and their orgies of fossil burning. But they are still in the quibbling stage, in what psychologists call a period of "defensive avoidance." The gas lines that started in California and have begun to spread across the country like a rumor are still open to confusing interpretations: Are they a temporary inconvenience or ominous intimations of the future? The last gas crisis, in 1973-74, subsided soon enough. Perhaps this one will as well? According to the Gallup poll, more than three...
Committee member Peter Brooke asked Reardon about Harvard's basketball facilities as he surveyed Watson Rink (complete with an elevator and special seating section for handicapped people, another legislative initiative of the '70s). After all, Brooke said, Exeter has a beautiful, four-court arena which is bigger than...
...were the two pitching brothers who played for the same team for four years in the middle '70s...