Word: fining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finding the diversion welcome, most of the world was watching as Neil Armstrong slowly descended the steps of the lunar module (LEM--remember?), hesitated for a moment on the final rung, then placed the first human bootprint on another world. ("The surface appears to be very, very fine-grained," Armstrong observed while his friend "Buzz" waited to join him, "it's almost sort of a powder.") It was bona fide Big Stuff. CBS and provided 31 hours of continued coverage; ABC naturally stopped after 30. "Save us a copy," the astronauts radioed back, when informed that the New York Times...
PRESIDENT CARTER HAS DIAGNOSED our "crisis of confidence" accurately. It's not that we don't trust Carter the man, it's that we don't trust Carter the leader. His Baptist morality is fine, but his energy program is a simpering excuse for real direction...
...worst Malvolio I have ever seen, professional or amateur. This time we have Kenneth Haigh, who knows what he's doing. He can wither with a glance, and inflate his importance with a long swagger-stick. And he is wise enough not to protract the Letter Scene beyond endurance. Fine as Haigh is though he has not found as many nucances in the character as Philip Kerr did on this came stage...
Five courses in the fine arts have gained a total of 84 students, while Chinese courses have jumped from eight to 38 students. Pihl said the increase of 30 students is "a reflection of the times...
...subscription drive has become another of the fine arts, and there are few if any practitioners more polished than the Chicago Lyric Opera's pressagent, Danny Newman. "There's no arts boom in America today," says Newman, 60. "There's only a subscription boom." Newman should know. He has made the "fickle" single-ticket buyer expendable in many American cities. As a consultant to the Ford Foundation since 1961, he has criss-crossed the country teaching theater companies how to set up subscription drives. His formula: subscribe now. Those two words are blazoned on the brochures announcing...