Word: controled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That earlier clash is now being studied by analysts seeking clues to China's aims in the current war. Historians now generally agree that the Chinese invasion of India had a limited goal: to establish control over a long-disputed desert plateau called the Aksai Chin. For centuries, caravans linking Tibet with China's remote Sinkiang province had traversed the area, whose border had never been clearly marked. So tenuous was the Indian presence that it took two years for India's border police to discover a paved highway that the Chinese had constructed...
...consolidate their power. Next comes the Terror, when the regime desperately tries to accomplish revolutionary goals no matter what the cost in blood. This horror often engenders a Thermidorean reaction (named for Thermidor, the month of the French revolutionary calendar in which the reaction occurred), when moderates regain control and the nation begins a period of convalescence. But ahead lies the danger of the fifth stage: the coming of a dictator still fired by some revolutionary zeal, and beyond that, the possibility, of a Bourbonism restored...
These days that bigger and better brother is ABC. Its great discovery was that kids control the dial, and that the channel turned on by a ten-year-old at 8 p.m. will often remain on through the 11 o'clock news. Hence, ABC hit upon a beginning lineup for the kids: Happy Days; Welcome Back, Kotter; Eight Is Enough and, this season, Mork & Mindy...
...could be argued that Williams landed in the right role in the right time slot (8 p.m., when children control the nation's sets). But Williams is not so much lucky as talented. In his stand-up nightclub act, which he does for free, to keep in touch with live audiences and to try out new material, he displays a range that encompasses Jonathan Winters, Danny Kaye, Steve Martin and Daffy Duck. Though always wearing the same costume-baggy pants, loud shirts, suspenders-he whips in and out of a multitude of comic characterizations. He can mimic the cadences...
What you try to reach for in television is that show that will play to all audiences, and once in a while you hit it. All in the Family was one. We all appreciate that the younger audience has almost complete control of the set, and since you want to get the set on and tuned to your station, you make a special effort to get shows on in the early evening that appeal to a younger audience...