Word: bells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appears, sycophancy reigns supreme. Khlyestakov is a fop with the instincts of P.T. Barnum. He rooks the local suckers of all their ready cash, comes close to seducing the mayor's wife (Sloane Shelton) and daughter (Erin Ozker) and then blows town. Like the tolling of the bell of doom, a resplendent attaché arrives from Moscow to announce the coming of the real inspector general...
...second line will consist of freshman George Hughes between junior Dave Bell and the team's other freshman, Gene Purdy. Hughes may be the Crimson player to watch this year. Last year he prepped at Choate, but before that he set all sorts of Mass. high school records for Malden Catholic and was the top high school player in the state. Bell, perhaps the fastest skater on the team, was a regular last season. Purdy's excellent play, on the other hand, has been something of a surprise...
...Commissioner of Education Terrel H. Bell described the findings as "rather startling," and said they "call for some major rethinking of education on several levels...
Officials at Gallup and other orga nizations are growing worried that many Americans are simply refusing to answer survey takers' questions when the bell rings. Says California Pollster Mervin Field: "Twenty years ago we could count on getting 85% [of a selected sample] with reasonable effort. Now we're hard-pressed...
...recurrent theme of the issue is that claims on government have grown out of control. Daniel Bell, professor of sociology at Harvard, calls this phenomenon the "revolution of rising entitlements." People expect more and more of their political leaders, he writes, and insist upon increasing government help as their lawful right as citizens. Yet the government's capacity to act and satisfy is finite, and the limits are in view. Interest groups-farmers, veterans, labor-have always been part of the American political scene. But they have multiplied as environmentalists, educationalists, welfare recipients and many others have joined...