Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston press has already come under much criticism for its coverage of the burning murder of Evelyn Wagler and the stabbing death of Ludivico Barba. Banner headlines reading "Woman Torched to Death" and "Man Stoned to Death by Youths" on successive days were sensational, especially when compared with the actual circumstances...
...predictions of ecological disaster, none have sounded more persuasive-or alarming-than those put forth last year under the banner of the prestigious Club of Rome. Based on computer projections of the present rate of population and industrial growth, a team of scientists at M.I.T. forecast massive economic collapse and global epidemics by the end of the 21st century. Last month another computer specialist sharply disputed that gloomy outlook. Writing in the British publication Nature, he reported that the computer programs used by the M.I.T. group contain a simple but highly significant "typographical error" that drastically alters their doomsday projections...
When violence was sweeping the nation's campuses in the late 1960s, a relatively small group of professors formed an alliance to carry the banner for scholarship. Though loosely knit, the University Centers for Rational Alternatives argued forcibly that student violence and emphasis on political action threatened academic freedom, and thus learning Today the students are subdued. But u c R.A., which now has 3,000 members among 'faculty and administrators on 350 campuses, continues to carry essentially the same banner. Only the foe has changed...
Jimi Plays Berkeley does not catch Hendrix at his peak, as advertised. Hendrix played Berkeley a mere three months before the end. And what is captured here is not the Hendrix experience, but just the act. Hendrix delivers spectacular performances--particularly of Purple Haze and The Star Spangled Banner--and goes through all the motions, playing on his back (once) and with his teeth (five times!). But by now, the show is deliberate and familiar and desperately boring, even in a 40 minute movie...
Land-use laws diminish not only the traditional rights of landowners but also the power of local governments. As a result, home rule-the right of local governments to determine their fate without outside interference-has become the banner under which opponents of planning rally. The issue is at the heart of controversies from Utah, where rural counties do not want to be told by the state how to deal with their land, to Martha's Vineyard, Mass., where islanders are hotly debating whether to accept the Federal Government's jurisdiction over their development...