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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Bok told his news conference last week that Bell has no "legitimate gripe," adding: "We're making a visible attempt to find available candidates. The choices we make are not on the basis of race and sex." Bok's response sounded like a Nixon press conference answer: He attempted to minimize the importance of a problem while concurrently emphasizing the administration's "visible attempt" to solve...
...crowds. They may not be quite as big as the Sunday busloads at the Great Wall, where fathers carry picnic baskets and tired babies up the high steps and people scratch their names and provinces like American graffiti. But they're big enough. And there are usually people to answer visitors' questions, even if it's only with a "Buddhism! We don't understand it." Students closed down some of the palaces during the Cultural Revolution, but it seems as though visual arts aren't thought as divisive as some other forms of culture might be. Probably it's because...
...additional college and World Football League contests per week. To fight off the perils of glut and decline, the networks are redoubling their efforts to make the games glossier with replays, added camera coverage and visiting-coach commentaries. If ratings continue to sink, such remedies may not be the answer. Less football might...
...from the generation of the Cultural Revolution--they're all manual workers of one sort or another, except one teacher. The atmosphere was quite different from that of more official gatherings. For example, a young woman asked us what love meant to us, and admitted she couldn't answer her own question, and someone else said, half-seriously, that classical relations of love were simpler and better. "Which classical relations?" a third person asked innocently. "You mean like Confucius?" Everyone laughed--in fact, everyone laughed a lot, and in general, despite the language barrier, the atmosphere reminded me more...
...teach-in to be held at Harvard will "answer questions raised by racist slanders, distortions and lies in this city, by making the politics of the issue clear," Maceo C. Dixon of New York City said yesterday...