Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what he hopes will continue to be Washington's most "in" restaurant, the Sans Souci: "Once we had the Texan. He learned to eat fine French food. The Georgian-he can learn too." In his thick French accent, Delisle jokingly offers an outrageously far-out claim to kinship with the President-elect: "I am from Marseille, so Mr. Carter and I are both Southerners...
Silverman likes to claim that during his five years as head of programming at CBS, he pioneered in giving women more starring roles in variety and dramatic shows. (They have always been prominent in sitcoms. Mary Tyler Moore is a realistic girl next door. Maude a tough neurotic, Laverne and Shirley cheerful bumblers.) But there is nothing altruistic about this; what interests Silverman is the "heavy viewer" of the medium. According to Ed Bleier, executive vice president for television at Warner Communications, such people are the ones "you have to reach out for if you want the ratings." He explains...
...women may have been inevitable. To a degree, programming follows the headlines. When television convinced itself that youth was in a prerevolutionary state during the late '60s, shows like Mod Squad tried to cash in on the excitement. When the blacks and other ethnic minorities asserted a claim on the nation's attention. Sanford and Son was sure to follow. Once the feminists started gaining attention, how could a producer fail to concoct something like Charlie's Angels...
...fact that Petrovek, who people claim had an off-season a year ago after being All-Ivy, East and America in '74-75 (if you had over 700 pucks shot in your direction, you'd have an off-yea too) returns for a final season in the nets does little to hinder Harvard's chances, but neither does the fact that unlike last season, Petrovek will be working with a defensive corps with which he's more than just vaguely familiar...
Although Rosovsky cites the need for curriculum revision, he makes his strongest claim when he states that the key to change lies in the active and enthusiastic participation of a sufficient number of professors in any new programs that come out of the discussion. If undergraduate education is to improve at Harvard, it will be necessary that faculty members be willing to spend at least half of their time teaching, and half of that time teaching undergraduates, as Rosovsky suggests. No task force report will be able to compel faculty members to devote time to undergraduates, but Rosovsky's message...