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...foot in Europe centuries before George Lucas made "American Grafitti." But America has adapted it, like other facets of Western civilization, on an enormous scale. In a rural Italian town 50 youths strolling by a park can turn a street into a strip; in Florida, it takes thousands to attain that critical mass. And the bids for sexual favors derive from an electic base. There are the crude grabs for women's body parts made by passing motorists. There are the fur-lined vans idling forward with their side doors open, displaying beds and smoking water pipes inside. There...
...Core does not insure a broad liberal education by merely requiring that students enroll in certain courses. Students cannot be forced to attain competency in a subject in which they lack interest or talent. There is no way to guarantee competency in a discipline without the support and receptivity of the student. Furthermore, the Core could not provide students with broad exposure to a number of disciplines without requiring a ridiculously heavy course load. Many Nat Sci professors object strenuously to the Core because they feel students cannot develop scientific understanding without taking a much larger number of science courses...
Although the choreographer tries to attain new combinations of gestures and movements, he is already supported by a 50-year-old tradition in modern dance. In fact, dance is now thought to be going through a classical period, in which certain "phrases," such as the contraction and release of Martha Graham or the fall to the floor of Doris Humphrey, have become rigidified, and used over and over again with little variation...
...quarrel, imbalances in the makeup of France's electoral districts would require the leftist parties to win at least 52% or 53% of the popular vote before they could gain a majority in the Assembly. But a shift in France's political demographics may help the left attain that goal. Giscard's lowering of the voting age in 1974 created the youngest French electorate in 40 years. The increase in left-leaning young voters has more than counterbalanced the rise in the number of voters over 65, who tend to be conservative. The more conservative farm...
Kilbourne examined the concept of "ideal feminine beauty," which she defined as "flawlessness--no blemishes, and, in fact, no pores." Advertisements make women feel "ashamed and guilty" because they cannot "attain that illusion," she said...