Word: adoptionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The best writers on that ever popular, ever portentous subject, the American character, tend to be members of the family-but by a sort of adoption only. They are not quite at ease at home. They look about them with a preternaturally bright, not overfond eye. They like to go...
More precisely, it is a film about how Mom overcomes Dad's loud protests and brings assorted orphans into the house. She does this by weeping, by putting the frost on, by cajoling, or by any combination of these techniques. Mixed Company is a good case for the founding...
Shavelson, whose credits include The Pigeon That Took Rome and The War Between Men and Women, shows himself a master of a formula that used to be standard fare on TV sitcoms: the emasculated American male who blusters and protests while remaining the tool of his pert, soft-spoken but...
Of course the reality is quite different. The Hellenic Students Association is a broad and non-partisan group. All its members would strongly condemn a military government in Greece as well as any foreign involvement favoring it, but this is what 99 per cent of the Greek people did in...
One step in that direction was the adoption in 1971 of the 26th Amendment to the Constitution, which lowered the voting age to 18. Forty-one states have also lowered the age of majority from 21 to 18. As a result, 18-year-olds now have fewer problems obtaining sex...