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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...morbid symptoms appears." His Don, solemnly played by Ruggero Raimondi, is a joyless, brooding creature whose compulsive sexuality is merely a neurotic reflection of social tensions. Losey gives us the least passionate seducer on film since Fellini's curiously chilly portrait of Casanova a couple of years ago...
...weeks ago, the Justice Department tried to compel Noraid to designate the Provisional wing of the I.R.A. as its "foreign principal." Noraid refused, and its attorney, former New York City Council President Paul O'Dwyer, insisted, "We won't be falsely labeled...
Which of the following words best completes this sentence: "How the ____ roses flush up in the cheeks." Red? Pretty? Yellow? The answer, according to the intelligence testmakers who devised that question more than a decade ago, is "red." But, observes a provocative new tabloid called Testing Digest, red is right "only if the cheek in question is white...
...weeks ago at the NEA headquarters in Washington, the air resounded with attacks on testing. Representatives of reform-minded organizations plus a smattering of professors, school administrators and test experts from 28 states gathered at a meeting organized by a cumbersomely titled group ("Project to DEmystify the Established Standardized Tests"). Some of the delegates even grumbled about the national turn toward required competency tests for promotion of elementary and high school students. P.T.A. Representative Ann Kahn said that due to testing, elementary school curriculums are now concentrating on test scores-to the exclusion of basics like good writing. Ralph Nader...
...Conference Organizer John Weiss, 24, an activist who a year ago hit on testing as an issue in search of a movement, truth in testing is only the first step. Weiss says he hopes tests will be seen in a more balanced perspective and that alternatives will be developed to replace multiple-choice tests if the current rebellion "takes the halo off the whole operation." To Ralph Nader, the main ill to be cured is "the destruction of the self-confidence of millions of students who incorporate into their own psyches the standards of evaluation set by the Educational Testing...