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Word: fored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's power to attack discrimination through use of preferential remedies. "Clearly the Philadelphia Plan is color-conscious," wrote Judge John Gibbons, but to strike the scheme down under Title VII the court "would have to attribute to Congress the intention to freeze the status quo and to fore close remedial action [to] overcome existing evils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Tale of Title VII | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

...does, and midway through the second act Jud is organizing a tribute to the old man in a Broadway theater. Unfortunately, the play falls apart about the same time, and when Scottie's turn comes to take the stage, he can only say: "You see be fore you a man who has absolutely no finish. I'm not kidding. I don't know how to get off." Playwright Slade might better have spoken the lines himself. His play does not end, but slides to a bathetic conclusion in unsightly puddles of tears and sweat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Death of a Flack | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

Wrong notes intrude; unlike almost all modern artists, he neither practiced be fore the sessions ("Practicing is tedious anathema to me") nor redubbed passages to smooth out errors. In a final heresy, he embraces sentimentality, the witch word of the 20th century. "The more gushing, the better," he proclaims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nine Wives and 700 Works Later | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...island, and she even gets used to his little quirks - like not getting rid of his mistress after the marriage. Later, following the death of his son, Theo is seen suddenly to age. Liz shows a steely side; she is frightfully patient as he turns into Zorba right be fore her eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Yachts of Luck | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...World War II Fletcher-class destroyer. One deck below the bridge on this modern ship, inside the dimly lit combat information center, highly trained specialists bend over computer consoles that monitor the sonar and radar and control the guns, torpedoes and antisubmarine weapons. The 5-in. cannons fore and aft are fired by two men sitting at a console rather than by eleven World War II sailors scrambling with cradles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Navy Under Attack | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

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