Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...partners, isolated from the world's developing nations, and isolated "from reality by the insistence that tough talk and big Pentagon budgets are somehow synonymous with national manhood." McGovern called instead for "a new internationalism," which would de-emphasize military solutions and big-power politics. It would instead accent multilateral cooperation, especially in helping small nations overcome hunger and poverty...
...least-mourned traditions: Dartmouth was the last of the eight schools to go coed. The reform came through the efforts of a man who is himself something of a novelty among Ivy League presidents, a computer expert and science-fiction buff who still speaks English with a thick Hungarian accent. As the chaos of rival songs faded away, John Kemeny just smiled: bringing women to Dartmouth had been one of his chief goals since he took over as president two years ago. "Dartmouth was incomplete without women," he says. "The environment without them was unnatural, and therefore education was handicapped...
...specialized needs of a specialized audience," Loomis says. He would emphasize educational and cultural shows like Sesame Street and Masterpiece Theater, which this month began showing a British-made five-part serialization of Vanity Fair. Indeed, if funds become any tighter, many more shows will have an English accent since it is cheaper to import a show than produce it. "Public broadcasting," Loomis asserts, "is complementary to the basic system in this country-which is commercial." He has no intention of asking for long-range financing of public TV for a while, a move that would mean greater freedom from...
Looking like a decolte rendition of the Dickinson stamp, in an English accent that came more from theatrics than the British Isles. Mildred Dunnock recited poems and read letters about frrriends, naatchah, death, Gawd...
ANYONE NEAR A TELEVISION set could see and hear Henry Kissinger this summer Apparently the White House decided that Kissinger is more frightening unseen than seen, for after three camerashy years, first the plump form and then the Germanic accent appeared in the American living room. If the Administration had extended its logic it might have welcomed David Landau's book. Kissinger The Uses of Power, but of course, the government wants not to illuminate Kissinger but merely to spotlight his more attractive points...