Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between 1910 and 1970 the dynamics of reading and writing have changed. Few people read habitually now-movies and T.V. provide a far more effortless escape to fill lonely nights. Reading literature is a form of active self-exploration. Unlike the movies, books demand immense concentration and visual inventiveness. There is a constant interplay between the page and wandering mind of the reader. Often he will look up entirely and lapse into a reverie suggested by the text. People read when they want to be alone with themselves, when they shun the social engineering of the media. In other words...
Addonizio's claim of immunity did not amuse U.S. Attorney Frederick B. Lacey. Lacey marched Addonizio before Federal Judge Robert Shaw and asked him to order the mayor to answer. Shaw declined to issue the order, but did demand that Addonizio explain his refusal in open court. Addonizio justified his silence on the grounds that he felt his answers might help forge a chain of evidence that could incriminate him. He knew the younger Boiardo, he said, and believed that he was under investigation. "Well, I guess that disposes of that one [question]," Shaw commented dryly...
...performs today. At the same time, talented men will demand far greater say in decision making, forcing corporations, like governments, to decentralize their operations...
...School committee of Faculty, students, and librarians agreed on November 24 to let periodicals circulate for four weeks, with recall possible after three days. A library study revealed that periodicals more than 20 years old could circulate due to the low demand for them, said Daniel Posnansky, Associate Librarian...
...committee will re-open a case if it feels a student can present evidence contradicting its first findings. If the appeals are granted, the students will demand that the hearings be open, rather than closed as the original ones were...