Word: basic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basic problem with Loeb theater, its stultifying inbrededness, has not been broached. Brustein's proposal is likely to exacerbate the cliquishness that turns so many students away from the Loeb. Only be being acutely aware of the serious threat to broad participation posed by Brustein's plan can undergraduates protect themselves where the administration has failed...
...negligent management also play important roles in the decline of Europe's industries. Many companies developed more production capacity than they could have hoped to use in the foreseeable future. Says Henri de Bodinat, a Paris-based industrial expert for the Arthur D. Little consulting firm: "One of the basic rules of capitalism is that industrial sectors reach a limit of growth as they mature and then begin to decline. It happened with railroads; it is now happening with steel, and in ten years the auto industry will have problems." What has turned an industrial adjustment into a crisis...
...morphine that are derived from opium. But only in the past few years have scientists understood why and how the human body responds to these drugs from the poppy plant. For contributing to that understanding, three men last week won the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation's prestigious Basic Medical Research Award...
Different as they are in story, mood and style, these films are linked by overriding similarities. First, and most basic, all are products of Australia's film community, probably the world's fastest-growing (75 features in the past eight years), and the work of a relatively youthful group of Australian film makers who are breathing new life into a once nearly moribund movie industry. Beyond that, most of these films deal in the search for roots that they obviously hope will sustain their new creative venturings?and perhaps make up for the general neglect of their nation's aesthetically...
...schools. (It barely had people.) In any case, Kate told Seventeen Magazine that they went to school in the city for about a month before they concluded that they would rather sing in bars than study all day. But somewhere down the line one of them learned basic chemistry, and they exploit their rather finite knowledge in a love song called "NACL" about two sympathetic characters, an atom of chlorine ("valence minus one"), and "handsome sodium." This is the kind of song that makes you wonder what there is to think about all day in the backwoods of Canada. This...