Word: fored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nevertheless, as forerunners-or fore-sitters-of the TV generation, Adler and Margolies are apologists for what they admit are television's "give-them-what-they-want aesthetics." They believe it is TV that makes things real, which may seem like a rather naive electronic version of Bishop Berkeley's metaphysics (a tree must be perceived if it is to exist). "If there is a garbage strike and your own neighborhood is unaffected, there is no garbage strike unless you see it on TV," says Adler. "If Abbie Hoffman never set foot on TV, there would...
...partly to the same nostalgia kick that has given so many other rock "oldtimers" new commercial success. But the Boys' floating style also fits right in with the softening of rock's hard core that has brought composer-singers like Elton John and James Taylor to the fore. The Beach Boys themselves have matured considerably. Brian is now 29, brothers Dennis and Carl 27 and 25 respectively, Al Jardine 27, Bruce Johnston 27, and Mike Love 30. As men they have more to say (all those beaches are dirty, for one thing), and they do not mind...
Most Americans must work nearly seven years for the same employer be fore they can claim as much as three weeks' vacation. All French workers, from office boys to factory foremen, are given four weeks' vacation starting with their first year on the job. Many Frenchmen take holidays of up to seven weeks. Rather than try to stagger vacations and cut down production, most French plants let their employees off in August and close for the month. In Sweden, workers are still better off; every employee in the country is guaranteed a month's vacation...
Instead of bringing peace, independence and partition brought horrible massacres, with Hindus killing Moslems and Moslems killing Hindus. Shortly be fore his assassination in 1948, Mahatma Gandhi undertook what proved to be his last fast to halt the bloodshed. "All the quarrels of the Hindus and the Mohammedans," he said, "have arisen from each wanting to force the other to his view...
...Deke") Slayton, the influential director of flight-crew operations, only experienced military and civilian fliers have been chosen for Apollo crews. Such skilled aviators were surely essential on the first space flights. But now that flight and landing techniques are well developed and scientific experimentation has come to the fore, the scientists argue that the importance of the jet pilots' role has diminished...