Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After joining the party, Teng studied briefly at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow and then returned to China in 1926. He rose rapidly in party ranks, becoming political commissar of the Communist Seventh Army at the age of 25. By that time he was a convert to the guerrilla strategies of Mao Tse-tung, the new chairman of the party's military committee. When these theories were attacked by other Communist leaders, Teng was ousted from office?the first of three times he was to suffer this ignominious fate...
...women who had fallen through the cracks, too young for social security, too old to be hired, not eligible for unemployment insurance because homemaking is not considered work." Also ineligible for welfare because she was not disabled and had no children under 18, caught in the double bind of age and sex discrimination, she saw that she belonged to both the middle class and the economically handicapped. With Laurie Shields, 58, a widow ("someone who always thought of myself as Mrs. Arthur Shields"), Sommers organized the Alliance for Displaced Homemakers in 1975 and traveled around the country to focus interest...
...theory, displaced homemakers are only temporary victims of change. But an American woman now has a fifty-fifty chance of being divorced, widowed or single by the time she reaches middle age, and as Milo Smith's motto indicates, she is likely to need a horse...
...seem to want. Whatever the reason for its success, "Animal House is just the beginning, not the end," says Paramount Head Barry Diller. "That kind of Saturday Night Live consciousness, that visual entertainment, will become a" staple," Another zany sleeper was Up in Smoke, one long giggle to the age of dope, dealing mainly with the encounters between two aging potheads and the law. Smoke's budget was $1 million, but it has already grossed 38 times that...
Some have called it the "apathetic age," but to accept this is to be blind to boundless activity by innumerable social and political groups. In its farewell issue, New Times depicted this as a "decadent" age; yet the magazine itself, though born out of the sensibilities of the '60s, went out sounding a faintly puritanical note that was proof that not everything had been infected by decadence. American journalism has always been inspired more by the Mafia than by the Gray Ladies. Moreover, it has a recurring weakness for the kind of tunnel vision that imagines a glimpse into...