Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter proposals call for the most extensive revisions in the Labor Relations Act since 1959, when Congress passed the largely promanagement Landrum-Griffin Act. The new bill would...
...inflamed some tender sensibilities. Take the heartfelt claim that all Italians, and not merely an outlaw underground, tend to be stigmatized by the word Mafia. Should the question be: Can this term unintentionally offend someone? Or should not the questions be: Is there an organized underworld? Is it actually called the Mafia? If so, to call it something else is to lose touch with reality...
...undergraduate at Columbia in the early '20s, Adler became a bulldozer for truth. In class he bombarded John Dewey with long letters pointing out ambiguities and contradictions in his lectures. Dewey benignly suffered Adler for several weeks and then ordered a young assistant to call him off. Adler concedes: "I was an objectionable student, perhaps repulsive." But he later became a popular teacher, first at Columbia, then for 22 years at the University of Chicago, where he and Robert Hutchins set out in 1930 to revolutionize American undergraduate education by teaching the Great Books. While students lionized Adler, senior...
...from the gallery came when Senator Kennedy wryly corrected Krebs, who had referred to the FDA commissioner as "Mr. Kennedy." Said the Senator (no kin): "He's Dr. Kennedy. You're Mr. Krebs." That was a pointed reminder to all the world that Krebs, who likes to call himself "doctor," has only an honorary Ph.D...
...Some 14 lean years and much obsessive labor followed before he gained wide recognition in Bang the Drum Slowly. Only two years later, in 1975, he won an Academy Award for his role as the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather, Part II. "I wasn't what you call an attractive person...