Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Writers must base their writing on personal experience and emotion," playwright Robert Anderson '39 said yesterday in a seminar at Eliot House on the role of the writer in theatre and filmmaking...
...Britain or in West Germany, as long as the French C.P. pursues so sectarian a strategy as to keep a majority of the French from voting for a Left-wing coalition. Unlike the Italian C.P., the French one continues to put the preservation of its own integrity--its electoral base and its hostility to any reformism it could not control--ahead of everything else. It even discards the opportunities for infiltration that gaining power would provide, if such power had to be shared with a larger party...
...victims of this aggressive defensiveness are the Socialists. They emerged from the battle with only a slightly larger electoral base than the C.P., they won fewer new seats than the Communists, their organization is far weaker, the strategy on which they had counted for their return to power as the dominant party of the Left is in ruins thanks to their ally, and they have no promising alternative course. "Objectively," in March 1978 as in May 1968, the French C.P. powerfully helped the regime...
...Donald B. Effler, head of cardiovascular surgery at the Cleveland Clinic when his chief associate, Dr. René Favaloro, developed the bypass. Said Effler: "I think the VA report has already been shot down, and if not, then it will be before sunset." Favaloro, recalled from his home base in Argentina to deliver one of the session's two principal lectures, made an impassioned, hour-long argument for bypass surgery on properly selected patients. Commented Boston Heart Surgeon Dwight Harken: "Any doubt as to the efficacy and desirability of bypass surgery has now suffered sudden death...
...January. Last week they went so far as to urge President Carter to take some form of action. The basic, underlying rate of inflation has been stuck since mid-1975 at 6%, already an unacceptable figure. A 15-page memo circulating within the Administration warns that the base rate is about to accelerate. Can double-digit inflation be far behind...