Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ROCK CONCERTS are to the children of the '60s and '70s what high mass once was to the peasants of Europe. Each event is designed to give rise to a sense of unity that refreshes the society and assures the individual's place in that society. Ecclesiastical rituals provided a comforting feeling of warmth and sameness for the medieval worshipper; in much the same fashion the highly ritualized goings-on at a rock concert give rise to a feeling of togetherness and a solid sense of belonging. The effectiveness of the rock event, of course, is highly dependent...
Administrators have not yet selected a replacement for the Vorenbergs, Dean Fox said this week, adding that more Faculty members are willing to serve as House masters now than in the late 60s and early '70s...
...that scene alone may be worth the price of admission. Similarly, a scene in which he sits in the bathroom taping his book is hilarious. Constantly interrupted, he finally tells an offending party to "shit and shove it under the door," Cary Grant with a fine measure of '70s Bogart...
...Anastasio Somoza II, a West Point graduate, became commander in chief of the National Guard. Luis governed until 1963 when a puppet president succeeded him. It was then the younger Somoza's turn. In 1967 General Somoza installed himself as president, stepping out only long enough in the early '70s to make the necessary manuevers to permit his "re-election" in 1974. Like his father, the current Somoza's base of power rests with the 7500-member National Guard faithfully trained and supplied by the United States. Somoza boasts that a higher percentage of his officers are trained...
While Moore and most of the other fighters in Shadow Box are black, no one will mistake Plimpton for a Great White Hope. Rather he calls to mind the role Beau Bridges played in the early '70s film The Landlord: a rich, soft, and well-intentioned white boy mixing it up with blacks from the ghetto--emerging unscathed by some miracle, but not unchanged...