Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just in the past six or seven years," she says, "that I've started to find out how I would act if I were not Betty Gra-ble." With a vision of herself as a composite Grable, Deanna Durbin and June Haver she wandered through an almost schizoid array of jobs-and names-on her way to wising up. She was Edna Rae Gillooly-the daughter of middle-class Irish parents, "with dashes of French, Dutch and American Indian"-until she left Detroit's Cass Technical High School; Edna Rae as a fashion illustrator's model...
Etzioni's bustling omnipresence has earned him an array of detractors. Staid social scientists tend to view him as a pushy hustler, and the American Sociological Association's newsletter has received complaints that he is quoted entirely too much in its pages...
Science, as might be expected, decries such prognosticators as unreliable. Weathermen at Washington's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration point out that squirrels are hoarding nuts mostly because nuts are more plentiful. For its forecasts, the NOAA turns to an array of computers, and they indicate-well, guess what? The "chances are 14 to 1 that this winter will be colder than that of 1973." One meteorologist with the National Weather Service, his tongue wrapped warmly in his cheek, was less confident: "I talk to the squirrels in my backyard every morning, and they don't know...
...need harder, more visionary effort in the Oval Office, and then a public rhetoric that matches in level the intelligence and awareness of the American people. The amount of time and energy required for such study and analysis of the array of problems now before the President precludes the old minstrel style of politics...
...office; they also had opportunities to establish policy and make laws, though they were generally in a negative mood and chose not to. Across the nation there were hundreds of voter initiatives and referendums on state, city, county and town ballots. In California the electorate confronted a bewildering array of 17 separate statewide propositions, including one that called for the elimination of all masculine terms from the state constitution (it passed). Connecticut voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment barring sex discrimination identical to the as yet unratified national Equal Rights Amendment. In Colorado environmentalists pushed through a measure requiring voter...