Word: cues
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government, expressed concern that taking such minor steps might damage a larger curriculum reform effort. David Reisman, Ford Professor of the Social Sciences and member of the Committee on Undergraduate Education, replied that the CUE's concerns were "every bit as cosmic" as Hoffmann's and that "this miniscule reform" will not better that committee's larger efforts...
...Labor Day celebrations in recent years. After dinner, they will be joined on the South Lawn by an estimated 6,000 labor union employees and their families for a military pageant that will conclude with the Army Band playing Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture-complete with cannons booming on cue...
...learned that imitation is not only the sincerest form of flattery, but it is also one of the surest signs of success. Jump, which is about stock-car racers in Appalachia, is described as "like The Hustler, except that the Paul Newman character doesn't have a pool cue-he drives a car." The budget on that one will be Cannon's limit, $300,000. With that kind of money, they reason, even if the picture bombs in the big Northern cities, they can still turn a handy profit down South...
...treats us, it is easy to see that God is a man." So said Madame de Tencin, Montesquieu's mistress. Historically hampered by archaic laws and antique moral codes, European women have accepted their lot much more readily than their American counterparts. Recently, however, growing numbers, taking a cue from their more combative sisters across the Atlantic, have launched their attack on male chauvinism...
...Troubles. Last week the sounds of stress seemed all too familiar and ominous to Velasco. In Quito, the capital, seven consecutive days of student violence ended in a three-hour battle involving tanks, tear gas and the chatter of machine guns. As if on cue, Velasco summoned his military chiefs. "I quit," he announced. This time, however, there was a change in the script. At the urging of Defense Minister Jorge Acosta, 49, who is Velasco's nephew, the generals refused to accept the President's resignation. Instead, they urged him to accept the backing of the barracks...