Word: attainment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...winning film, "All About Eve." Bacall repeats her performance for this television adaptation along with another veteran from the Broadway show, Penny Fuller. Bacall plays Margo Channing, a seasoned theater star and Fuller is Eve Harrington, the conniving novice out to win everything Margo has worked so hard to attain, including her fiance and her fame. Probably the best show this week. Ch. 7, 9:00 p.m. 2 hours...
...class from the perspective of the 1950s, Negro Sociologist E. Franklin Frazier wrote a scathing critique of what he called the black bourgeoisie. He derided its typical member as "half a man in a white man's country." The bourgeoisie, he concluded, "suffers from nothingness because when Negroes attain middle-class status, their lives generally lose both content and significance...
...test justified its priority and expense. India's new nuclear role will probably establish the country as an increasingly potent political force on the Asian subcontinent and among the Third World nations. Ever since China exploded its own bomb in 1964, India has felt the need to attain nuclear status both to remain competitive with Peking and to enhance its security from outside attack. That status will become markedly real if India decides to perfect its ongoing rocketry program by constructing an effective delivery system. Moreover, said Indian Defense Minister Jagjivan Ram in response to Western criticism, the test...
Even if Coleman won't make any grand judgements on the system that has supported him, he ought to allow others to attain his personal dream of wholeness. In the detachment of his Haverford office, Coleman certainly should reflect on the masses of workers who have never had the opportunity to exercise their minds for a couple of months in, say, the rigors of running a college. Naturally he ought to step down for a spell to give them all a chance to write White-Collar Journals and achieve some sense of regained self. But of course, as Coleman notes...
...tell us what Vietnamese think Americans think Vietnamese are thinking--but most times it seems to be just the way Rubin writes. Partly as a result of his syntax and partly because of the childish-sounding exclamations with which he dots their speech, Rubin's Rhade only intermittently attain the dignity they need to make us fully care for them--a dignity we do sense, for instance, hearing about the days when the sky was so low that fish could nibble at the stars when the water rose, when the Rhade's ancestor laughed at his father...