Word: charting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What's all the worry about? Consider a depth chart that looks like a piece of Swiss cheese. How about a team that doesn't have a single placekicker? Then, of course, there's the lack of a returning letterman at quarterback. There's the paper-thin receiving and running corps...
Ultimately, this is less the biography of people than the fever chart of an ideal. The Bloomsberries aspired to a spiritual bohemianism that would throw off Victorian customs and morals. They shaded 19th century liberalism into a reformers' zeal for the good, the beautiful and the outspoken. In literature they allied themselves with the experimental; in art they coined the term post-impressionist and introduced the English public to Cezanne, Van Gogh, Matisse and Picasso...
...NORAD calculations are being transmitted by phone to a windowless room at the Johnson Space Center, where four five-member teams take turns watching monitor screens round the clock. On one wall hangs a lO-ft.-high chart detailing the altitude of the falling lab, day by day. The room, No. 314, is far plainer than the control center from which the Apollo moon missions were directed. The watch teams receive fresh telemetric data from Skylab whenever it gets within radio range of one of five NASA tracking stations (in Santiago, Chile; Bermuda; Ascension Island; Madrid; and Goldstone, Calif...
Nowhere is editorial ambivalence more apparent than on the question of supporting the Progressive magazine in its attempt to publish an article and chart showing how a nuclear bomb works. The magazine is now under federal injunction not to publish its report, an unprecedented case of prior restraint that is troubling to all editors. Overcoming their initial misgivings, the board of directors of the A.S.N.E. voted unanimously to support the Progressive's appeal. With somewhat less agonizing, the American Society of Magazine Editors last week announced that it too would back the appeal...
...mindless network shows into learning aids. The first piece of alchemy was making cops-and-robbers shows the cornerstone of a curriculum package. Columbo episodes serve as lessons on literary elements: dramatic character, plot development, conflict and resolution. Students taking law and criminal-justice courses use a "constitutional-awareness chart" to determine whether Baretta has illegally roughed up a suspect. Armed with their study guides, students quickly become sensitive to the way television can distort reality. "All big-city cops are not as glamorous as Kojak," says Lori Kaufman, 14, of Lucas, Kans...