Word: freer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ironies of the soaps' success is that nobody who works during the day can see them. What has become a persistent threnody in American life is shaped by housebound women, students, hippies and the unemployed. This ghettoization of the soaps has kept them freer of the kind of systematic analysis frequently made of sources of popular culture like comic strips and rock music. But now, after more than 40 years of near invisibility, soaps are gaining academic attention. Colleges are offering courses on them. They are being claimed as heirs to the 18th century tradition of the picaresque romantic novel...
...speaker was a thin, quietly dressed man looking older than his 55 years. His lecture consisted of 36 minutes of platitudes about the virtues of capitalism and the need for freer international trade and investments. At the end, the 43 University of Minnesota students who had turned out on a snowy day gave him perfunctory applause...
...truck and bus transportation from federal regulation. This marked the third phase of a land-air offensive: earlier the Administration had proposed a Railroad Revitalization Act, which would lift the heavy hand of the Interstate Commerce Commission from railroads, and an Aviation Act of 1975, which would allow airlines freer competition in fares and routes. The three bills together, said Ford, would "produce a regulatory system that responds to the needs of the consuming public instead of the interests of the regulated industries...
Swift Irregularity. So the current exhibition, Art of the Arab World, at Washington's Freer Gallery is not to be missed. Organized by Art Historian Esin Atil, from the encyclopedic stores of the gallery's own collection, the show contains 80 objects, many of superb aesthetic interest, ranging across a period of 800 years. It does not include Turkish or Persian work. As the name implies, the focus is on Arab art as such−mainly from Syria, Egypt and Iraq...
...astrological images, courtly scenes or scientific inventions−represented in this show. Arab culture was pragmatic. Almost everything the Italian Renaissance knew of medicine and chemistry, for instance, was transmitted to it through Arabic versions of Greek texts, which often required drawings of the human body. The Freer show contains several scientific manuscripts. One is a splendidly decorated version of a herbal by the Greek naturalist Dioscorides. Another is a fascinating 14th century manuscript on water clocks, paddle wheels and the like, al-Jazari's Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices...