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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Henry Gibson's Haven Hamilton could be vain, phony and tyrannical, a civic leader and country star apparently treating like children the audience that fed his ego. Until he stands on the stage of the Parthenon oblivious to his wounded arm, thinking of the audience before himself. "This isn't Dallas, this is Nashville. Let's show 'em what we're made of!" If one's inclined to make value judgements about specific moments here, the gesture is either redeeming or it is not. But Altman and Gibson developed the character in a less good guy/bad...
Nebraska absorbs the country; we sweat over its cornhusking fields and gas up at a service station cum grocery store cum library. The attendant is corn-fed chunky and straw-haired and even voiced. He can only pump regular gas, and when a lady from Taos. New Mexico in an Aubrey Beardsley tee-shirt asks for High Test, he mumbles an incoherent reply. Eyes in the till. Billy Graham manuals--step by step guides to the appreciation of the middle life--coexist side by side on the book racks with Reinhold Niebuhr tomes on something or other profound. Fred buys...
...Congress gives itself far too many recesses and vacations at a time when there are pressing problems to be solved. "If we want to restore the confidence of people in government, we've got to stop that." As he roamed his district, Levitas also reported that people were fed up with both the executive and legislative sides playing partisan politics. Says he: "They perceive a great deal of contrived confrontation on both sides...
...took a while, but school officials in Richmond, Va., finally got fed up with teacher absenteeism last week. In studying records for the 1973-74 school year, they found that an average of 40 of the city's 2,000 teachers called in sick each day in the middle of the week; 47 on Fridays and Mondays, and 55 on Mondays after paydays. "There are abuses of the sick-leave policy," charged school board member William Edwards. His proposed solution: Starting next fall two school nurses would make house calls on teachers who are "habitually absent...
They have dropped sharply in the past several months, largely because the Federal Reserve Board has expanded the money supply since mid-March at a high rate of 10.5%. That signaled the Fed's shift in top priorities, from righting inflation to righting recession. Now the Fed will not expand the credit supply at reckless rates; Chairman Arthur Burns, at 71, is determined not to go down in history as the man who rekindled inflation. But he is under pressure from politicians and bankers to keep money growing at a sustained rate. He has promised to increase...