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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...questionnaire has a statistical format--students are asked to rate aspects of their personalities, interests and goals on a scale. "Results will be reported for large groups of students, rather than for individuals," Zuckerman said...
...type of debate which emphasizes creativity, wit, humor, analysis, and persuasion." Rozinski said yesterday, adding the society is an alternative to the more formal single-topic format of the Harvard Debate Council...
...extemporaneous debate tournaments, the teams, comprised of two people, have only 15 minutes to prepare a speech on a given subject. Topic debating, the more traditional format at Harvard, emphasizes exhaustive research; only one resolution is debated all year...
...Best of the West, ABC is making another error by invoking yet again the "gang comedy" spirit of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Ed Weinberger and Stan Daniels, producers of Moore's show, Taxi and The Associates, should know by now that the basic format-a bland central character surrounded by screwballs -works only when the star has a patient and loyal following, as Moore did. Even with the best of casting, the TV audience hardly needs another gang comedy, certainly not a spoof western. Satire, like sacrilege, derives its impact from audience belief in the significance of what...
...Oney prefers to focus on--including the Atlanta slayings and Leary pieces--are examples of the "New Journalism" he so greatly admires. His work aims to present people as they really are, a goal made immeasurably easier, he says, by the absence of daily deadlines and by the magazine format of the Atlanta Weekly. During his five years there, he interviewed people as diverse as California Angels' manager Gene Mauch ("a very strange and interesting man ... he's liable to do anything, really"), former Georgia Sen. Herman Talmadge (defeated last fall), and Billy Carter. Laughing, Oney remembers quoting Carter...