Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yale went through the gamut of ratios each year while trying to whittle the score down to 2.5 to 1, which was finally reached last year...
...trademark on the bench was to interrupt a counsel's learned argument citing precedent and book with the simple, almost naive question: "Yes, but is it fair?" He believed that social justice was more important than legalisms: "You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important...
Died. Adelle Davis, 70, spunky preacher of the good-eating gospel; of bone cancer; in Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. Trained as a dietitian and holder of a master's degree in biochemistry, Davis contended that improper diet is the cause of a broad gamut of diseases as well as such social afflictions as crime, mental illness and drug abuse. In four bestselling volumes (Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit, et al.), she urged readers to shun refined grains and packaged foods, eat organically grown fruits and vegetables, unprocessed cheese and fertilized eggs, and take large doses...
...universal in that regardless of people's politics we can all relate because we present the essence of blackness in this country to a gamut of black organizations from churches to political activists. We also try to make positive impressions on young black brothers and sisters as role-models," Graham says...
...with big-name stars. One purpose of Counterpoint was to supplement applications to the film schools at USC and UCLA, the two major feeders for TV and Hollywood, and partly for this reason the picture is flashy--over 400 special lab effects were used. "I tried to run the gamut," says Brown. Right now he's halfway through a tongue-in-cheek version of Robin Hood, based on the Errol Flynn movie and filmed in color with Robert Kennedy Jr. '76 in the leading role. Maid Marion was originally designed for a sophomore named Nicole Bourgois. It's inspired...