Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lately, Ecevit has been passing the hat among the Western powers and the International Monetary Fund with a forceful pitch for the financial rescue of his country. A simple glance at the map−by the light of the flames in Iran−provides him with a powerful new argument...
...films being premiered this weekend is by Carpenter Center's animation teacher, Kathy Rose, featured in argument with her characters in her film pencil Bookings. Much of the recent independent animation in the U.S. has been done by one-time VES 153 teachers and students. George Griffin taught it last year, Mary Beams Phillips the year before. Frank Mouris, who won an Academy Award, Eliot Noyes, famous for his sand film Sandman, and Caroline Leaf, whose experiments have been so numberous and noteworthy the last Center Screen showing will be devoted to her work--all are old friends of Carpenter...
...point of view of her thesis, but are not always clear in their own right. Her discussions of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's and Eugene Genovese's portrayals of black sociology are vivid but sometimes confusingly located in the text, and her autobiographical comments, while giving life to the argument, do not always flow happily into the generalizations she attempts to make...
...A.A.M. wants crop prices raised to 90% of "parity," an antiquated concept founded on the argument that farm prices should have been rising as fast as nonfarm prices since World War I. Agriculture Department economists scoff at this demand; they say that 90% parity would drive retail food prices -the biggest single factor in the U.S.'s inflation problem -up by 16% this year, on top of the 10% increase...
...their rhetoric are impotent. They quoted the bible, cursed the "niggers," and smiled as the words "racism" and "prejudice" crossed their lips. But their verbal jabs at busing, affirmative action and Joe Califano seemed perfunctory. It was hard to believe that the Klansmen saw any logic whatsoever in their argument against the Equal Rights Amendment--they claimed it would make unisex bathrooms mandatory in schools and in the armed forces, thereby making it easier for black men to rape white girls...