Word: documental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past decade has dispensed $8.8 million in research grants. In that way he would have avoided all federal estate taxes. But by week's end no one had produced his will. There is growing suspicion that the eccentric Hughes may have died before executing a legally binding document. If so, his fortune, estimated at a total of $2.3 billion, will be reduced by the largest inheritance tax in history-$1 billion or more...
...authors document their claims with three case studies on the frustrations of non-college graduates...
...Greek Slave was the first internationally famous work of art produced by an American; when it toured the U.S. in 1847 it created a sensation and people queued to see it. Yet today, as one gazes on this chaste pastiche of the Medici Venus, it seems more an anthropological document and less a work of art than most Alaskan carvings. The problem, of course, is not that neoclassicism is remote from us but that the American version of it was unimpressive...
...down-home country boy can have a good grip on foreign affairs. Six weeks earlier, he had asked three of his foreign policy advisers-Professors Zbigniew Brzezinski and Richard Gardner of Columbia and Milton Katz of Harvard-to prepare an outline for a comprehensive policy statement. Using that document, Carter and his staff worked up drafts for a speech, consulting with Cyrus Vance, a Deputy Defense Secretary in the Johnson Administration...
Total Amnesty. In the summer of 1974 a group of young captains in Barcelona inaugurated the U.M.D. by publishing a manifesto against the military's role in Spanish society. The document attacked "the complete divorce between the real Spain and the totalitarian system of government" that had made the armed forces "the guardian of the interests of the regime." It proposed instead that the armed forces put themselves "exclusively at the service of the people." Specific goals included "the full re-establishment of human rights and democratic freedoms, and total amnesty for citizens who have been punished for defending...