Word: heighte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...compulsion to seriously explore the Black experience; where was objectivity then? The University's denial of tenure to Isaac, its emphasis on joint appointments to Afro, and its vigorous criticism of the department all reek of the battle of political perspectives. To divorce Afro studies from politics is the height of absurdity, yet this is what is presently happening at Harvard under Southern's supervision...
...every night on the evening news. Now, with the fall of Saigon a receding memory, war films are staging their own kind of blitzkrieg. Toral Tora! Tora!, the story of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, nearly ruined 20th Century-Fox when it was released in 1970, at the height of the Viet Nam War. Midway, on the other hand, which took unused footage from Tora! for its own scenes of the momentous World War II carrier battle in the Pacific, was the sixth-largest grosser in the peaceful year of 1976. It made well over $20 million-more than...
...number of physicians are no longer recommending such examinations (TIME, July 26). Still, Jensen feels, even members of this age group should be warned of bad health habits that could mean trouble later in their lives. That the computer can do. The only prior physical measurements it needs are height, weight, blood pressure and serum cholesterol, which can easily be taken by a technician rather than a doctor. Adds Jensen: "I believe people will make significant changes just based on awareness...
...feel good." Balanchine is talking about the ballet known in Germany as Der Nussknacker, in France as Casse-Noĩsette and throughout the English-speaking world as The Nutcracker. Not even Walt Disney could top it. Right on stage a Christmas tree grows magically to an enormous height. A nutcracker doll springs to life, defends its young mistress, Marie, against an army of huge mice, then turns into a young prince. A white bed, moving under its own power, transports Marie through a wintry forest and into the Land of Sweets. There she and the prince are entertained...
...opinions that could get him banned from liberal cocktail parties for life. For example, he notes that the restrictions imposed by the Johnson Administration on the bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong forced Navy pilots to take unreasonable and pointless risks−and needlessly killed hundreds of them. At the height of the Viet Nam protests, amid cries that fascism was at hand. Americans "had, and exercised, the most extraordinary political freedom and civil rights in all history." The sexual revolution ,means that people can copulate "with the same open, free "liberated spirit as dogs in the park or baboons...