Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most distinctive voices in U.S. daily journalism. The Journal's editorial page is the country's most widely quoted source of conservative opinion. Its front page has a capacity for surprise unmatched by any other paper. News and financial items are ticked off with smart, bulletin-like precision. These columns are bracketed by serious financial comment, offbeat personality profiles and flights of pop sociology. In a given week, the Journal's left-hand column will take up subjects as diverse as the trend toward naming rival products in advertising, and the not-quite-emerging nation of Afghanistan...
...letter to the Editor of December 15, Richard Herrnstein has reached once again into his dusty bag of tricks, this time pulling forth that favorite of the high school debating team, the quotation-out-of-context. The passage from my article in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (March, 1970), an article which I urge everyone to read, was designed, in its context, precisely to show that heritability must be referred to particular populations and, more important, that for the question of genetic differences between races, it really makes no difference what value of heritability you suppose for the white population...
...name Boston critics eager to see it. Besides that, he concluded that there wasn't a reviewer on the Crimson staff competent to knowledgeably criticize the piece. To demonstrate this lack of expertise he filed exhibits A through Z--reviews from earlier that year--on a Harvard Dramatic Club bulletin board. A jury of his peers and colleagues swiftly returned a verdict of guilty, and the paper was condemned for yet another year to twist slowly, slowly on the spit of resentment; fuel for fires in the rooms of theater people at Harvard long before the energy crisis was more...
...spokesman for lefty liberation. In 1968 he wrote a bestselling attack on the old prejudices called Warnings Against Rightist Culture. Three years ago, he founded the Japan Lefthanders League to encourage lefthanders to come out of the closet. Today the league's 1,500 members receive a monthly bulletin to boost their self-esteem and remind them of such famous lefties as Michelangelo and Harry Truman...
Latin books from the thirties lined the walls and sample test questions from the Kansas State Normal School adorned the bulletin board. To succeed in Latin required no intellectual curiosity but rather an ability to appreciate Miss Davis's sermons, and a working knowledge of the art of sycophancy...