Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more new votes the better, at least to some extent," Lin Sasman, executive director of the campaign for the Cambridge Civic Association's (CCA) reform slate, said last week...
...find much better books about jazz. For literary merit, read LeRoi Jones's uneven but occasionally brilliant Black Music. For biography and oral history, read Spellman's Four Lives. For comprehensive approach and an up-to-date discography Frank Tirro's Jazz: A History is among one of the best. But if you know nothing about jazz and want to learn, spend your money on records instead...
...subtlety of this work is much better appreciated on the large screen than it is on the small, and for this compilation, Jones has cut pieces from 16 Road Runners together into a seamless super-chase. It is reason enough to attend this movie, but there are others. Among them are two classic Jones-supervised shorts, What's Opera, Doc?, a send-up of Walt Disney's Fantasia in which Bugs Bunny makes a ravishing Brunhilde opposite Elmer Fudd's stalwart Wagnerian hero. In Duck Amuck, Daffy Duck, whose specialty is egocentricity, suffers the indignity of having...
Arens says Columbus passed on tales of cannibalism to his Spanish masters to help establish a slave trade. In one report he wrote of the Caribs: "The welfare of said cannibals. . . has raised the thought the more that may be sent over [to Spain] the better." Afterward, on one Caribbean island after another, natives were identified as cannibals, then enslaved. Says Arens: "Thus the operational definition of cannibalism in the 16th century was resistance to foreign invasion followed by being sold into slavery...
...straying women said they found their adventures very satisfactory (57% to the males' 34%). The women paid the price for being satisfied; they reported almost twice as much guilt as men. Spanier says that might prove one of two things: either women express their sexual needs better, or "they may tend to label relationships with greater intensity." Translation of option two: women may make too much out of a simple fling...