Word: formally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hentoff relentlessly drives home his point through a series of fast-paced interviews with a more personable black principal who also turned reading scores around in an intermediate school in New York City, and with a social worker with no formal education whose contagious personal integrity and concern has saved many whom the system usually loses to the street. It is Hentoff's stated intention to "look for schools, principals and teachers" who can enable "even the most 'uneducable' kids to learn." But the weakness underlying the whole book is the question of whether these models can provide universal, "replicable...
Seated at his most formal White House desk, Carter was serious and effective Monday night in delineating the dimensions of the impending energy shortage. Although his words were, as always, delivered in soft Southern tones, they were blunt and stark. If the world's use of oil continues at present rates, he predicted, demand will exceed international production by the early 1980s. Just to stay even would require "the production of a new Texas every year, an Alaskan North Slope every nine months or a new Saudi Arabia every three years...
...Only an art of constant formal self-criticism," wrote the critic Michael Fried in a preface to an earlier Noland museum retrospective in 1965, "can bear or embody or communicate more than trivial meaning." Noland's work was self-critical in the extreme. It seemed made for-not to say, made by-the narrow and authoritarian standards of "tough" formalism, as issued to the world by Clement Greenberg and his epigones in Artforum. Nothing considered inessential to painting remained in it. No representation or symbolism. No drawing except of the most rudimentary and geometrical kind: circles, squares, chevrons, straight...
...Rockefeller Foundation. A woman friend in terrible emotional trouble begged for help. Teddy Kollek, the mayor of Jerusalem, wanted Hesburgh to fly over and help stop the rapid development of high-rise buildings. There was a hopeful note from the freshman class asking if Hesburgh would attend their formal dance. Another letter told him that the Chinese Communists, who generally view priests as only slightly more admirable than locusts, were interested in inviting him to China...
...senate. Like legislators elsewhere, some were impressed more by the viewpoint espoused in the road-show tactics of Phyllis Schlafly, an Alton, Ill., housewife and an active Republican, who wrote the right-wing treatise on Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential candidacy, A Choice Not an Echo. Wearing long, formal dresses, members of her "Stop ERA" brigades have descended on legislators, bearing gifts of homemade bread "from the breadmakers to the breadwinners." Says Schlafly: "Women already enjoy superior rights." Her followers agree so strongly that they announced a boycott of Girl Scout cookies after the national Girl Scout organization endorsed...