Word: ets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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reYou Ever Loved A Woman," et. al.) Under the impression, it seems, that he can reach an even wider public by broadening the scope of his musical sources...
...applaud TIME's giving credit to its staff members for the cover story on Charlie's Angels: Editor Martha Duffy, Critic Richard Schickel, et al. It is a pity the same generosity was not extended to whoever created the series. Starting from the blank page, Ben Roberts and I wrote the script and then produced the "slick pilot," which then became a series...
...Figaro, Dorabella in Cost fan Tutte) with exquisite taste, control and sheen. Or that she can blend the impetuous and the spiritual so deftly as Nina in Thomas Pasatieri's The Seagull, or the childlike and the vulnerable so magically as the heroine of Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande. Starring in Rossini's La Cenerentola with La Scala in Washington, D.C., last September, she displayed enough bravura vocal fireworks to suggest that Flicka also has a bit of the hellcat...
Much of the most powerful work deals with war. There is a remarkable similarity in spirit between several of the poems collected here and the poems written by European poets during the First World War. "My Brother" is often reminiscent of Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est:" "...the enemy have not left us any seedling on our lands/Other than the corpses of our dead." Another poem, "In the Valley of the Shadow of Death," evokes the horrors of war indirectly, suggesting that peace is too often taken for granted...
...spite of nagging questions about the reliability of ETS's three-figure quantifications of people's "aptitude," over-worked, understaffed admissions boards and personnel managers continue to rely upon test scores for an easy, quick, "objective" standard. In some parts of the country, state law now sets specific SAT and LSAT cut-off scores for admission to state universities. In the 1971 Federal court case of Baker et al. v. Columbus (Miss.) Municipal Separate School District et al., the court established that the Columbus school authorities' use of the National Teacher Exam (an ETS test) cut-off score...