Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Toffler is being quite pretentious. He has not only not worked as hard as Karl Marx, but he also made a fair amount of money from Future Shock (only a fraction of the size of Das Kapital) while Marx died in penury. But Toffler has some points. Why should society's malaise be confined to "alienation" the way Marx narrowly defined it? Toffler takes the broader view that the problem is more profound than simply the inability of man in modern society to objectify himself through his activity (or labor). Man, Toffler says, developed certain biological equipment long...
...when they get a fair chance, they do well. Nikki Mintz finds her niche in comedy in "Raining in My Heart" after falling unsuccessfully between bitter and sweet with "If Love Were All." Judy Banks has a clear, strong voice, well-suited to musicals, but she and Hayes, despite their talent, show the dreary "Who Said Gay Paree" was replaced with "I Love Paris" in Can-Can. And Patty Woo's phrasing and professionalism help, but they are not powerful enough to overcome the material. Her "Anyone Can Whistle" is a soft tune that does work as it should, though...
Sometimes you wind up with the short end of the stick, as the women's basketball team learned last night by losing to a fair-to-middling squad from Bentley College 62-57. The loss lowered the squad's record...
...adapt and survive or give way to "fitter" varieties. It is based on considerably more concrete evidence than the pioneering labors of Leakey and his father. Harris has made numerous field trips to Mozambique, India, Ecuador and Brazil in search of ancient cultures. And one can theorize with a fair degree of accuracy about what, say, the Aztecs ate and wore based on the archaelogical remains. These are far more accessible than those of Austropithocus. But it is much harder to explain the dynamics of a society, almost in inverse ratio to the remains of it available for study...
...Howland study recommends a series of measures to relieve the tension. These include an assurance of fair standards for promotion within the department, and a reorganization of the force to maximize efficiency and to give officers more responsibility and quthority...