Word: barbarae
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mood of high exasperation some years ago, after a life spent trying to explain human history, Barbara Tuchman wrote a book whose thesis was that the nearly invariable tendency of leaders and governments is to choose courses of action that are demonstrably idiotic. Her ringing title, The March of Folly, is almost too widely useful (it could serve as the motto of the U.S. Congress or the name of a newsmagazine), but what it fits best in recent experience, so that it should be inked in as a subtitle, is a brilliant and appalling new history of the Russian Revolution...
...death of affirmative action in California universities will not adversely affect the Asian-American student population there, said Professor Shirley Lim, professor of English literature at the University of California at Santa Barbara, to a small group of students in Loker Commons last night...
...University of California at Santa Barbara is currently a very attractive place for Asian-Americans," she said. "If current trends continue, then the campus will become even more...
...medium--and America--has patently come a long way from the 1952-53 season, when the cast of I Love Lucy couldn't utter the word pregnant during Little Ricky's gestation period, or 1965 when, a year after network TV got its first double marital bed on Bewitched, Barbara Eden was forbidden by NBC to show her belly button on I Dream of Jeannie...
Fast food isn't exactly one of America's more glamorous cultural symbols, but that hasn't put off bag lady to the rich and famous Kathrine Baumann. New to her menu of ritzy glass-beaded purses, clutched by such celebrities as Liz Taylor, Melanie Griffith and Barbara Walters, is what she calls "the great American meal," a hamburger, fries and a bottle of Coca-Cola. It's hardly a take-out order for the common gal, however. This little set of McTrinkets costs about $6,000, which comes to more than 1,000 "great American meals...