Word: fredric
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subsidiaries, including Gulf Power. On the day of the crash, Horton was told by Gulf Power officials that an internal auditing group had recommended his dismissal after 33 years with the company because of possible violations of company policies. On the same morning, Horton informed his lawyer, Fredric Levin, that he believed he had become the focus of the grand jury investigation...
...rabbis willing to bypass tradition? Some cite humanitarian reasons. Rabbi Fredric Dworkin of Leonia, N.J., first broke ranks 20 years ago, when an obese Jewish woman who had experienced difficulty finding a mate pleaded, "This might be my only chance at happiness." A more common argument is presented by Rabbi Richard Schachet, whose Chatsworth, Calif., synagogue consists almost entirely of the intermarried. "Every Jew who is turned away is a potential loss," he says. While opponents see intermarriages as a threat to Jewish survival, rabbis who perform them reason that the couples will wed anyway and a friendly approach...
Even after the mighty 200-in. Mount Palomar telescope revealed no evidence at all of networks of straight lines or other manifestations of intelligent life on Mars, the fascination continued. Fredric Brown's novel Martians, Go Home, Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, Robert Heinlein's novel Stranger in a Strange Land, and the popular Buck Rogers comic strip all involved encounters with Martians of various sizes, shapes and consistencies...
...Fredric Wertham, in Seduction of the Innocent...
Despite the success of the TV series, which is still being syndicated to this day, Superman had some bad times during the '50s and '60s. For all his superpowers, he proved quite helpless against the onslaughts of Dr. Fredric Wertham, onetime senior psychiatrist for New York City's department of hospitals and author of a widely read anticomics diatribe, Seduction of the Innocent (1953). Though much of Wertham's crusade was a commendable attack on the sadism in crime and horror comics, he denounced Superman before legislative committees on rather dubious political grounds. He attached weighty significance to the derivation...