Word: gabe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...standard English, but they insisted that the school respond more sympathetically to the dialect in teaching. "Language is like clothing," said University of Michigan Professor Daniel Fader, testifying on behalf of the children. "When you take it away from the child, you leave him naked." As Attorney Gabe Kaimowitz insisted, "We're looking for use of black English as a bridge to get kids to use standard English...
...Gabe Gibbons Houston
...Waverly Wonders bears a certain resemblance to ABC's Welcome Back, Kotter. Joe Namath plays the Gabe Kaplan part, acting as coach to a no-win high school basketball team called, naturally enough, the Waverly Wonders. The chief distinction between the two shows is that NBC'S sweathogs are better looking than ABC's. Another program that might appeal to Freddie is Sword of Justice, which sounds like a cross between The Green Hornet and The Scarlet Pimpernel. After serving five years in prison on a bum rap, the hero (Dack Rambo) emerges to be come...
...Kotter" portrays it on television. Others take the title of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn too seriously and believe a single tree grows somewhere among the wall-to-wall tenements. Hordes of Jewish comedians from Brooklyn have helped perpetuate these stereotypes--everyone from Woody Allen to Mel Brooks to Gabe Kaplan to Alan King is guilty. But the myth that Brooklyn is a teeming mass of poverty, illiteracy, downright stupidity and silly accents whose only redeeming quality is its proximity to Manhattan is totally baseless...
Manager Billy Martin on the phone call from General Manager Gabe Paul summoning him to the front office hours before the final game: "I didn't know what he wanted. I wondered who had jumped the club now." (The beleaguered manager-who until that moment thought he might be fired-was given a bonus and told he would return to the club next year...