Word: hiatuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Poisonous Stone Fish. NBC's Barrier Reef is yet another underwater adventure series. The first installment dealt with an attempted murder involving a poisonous stone fish. Another NBC show, Mr. Wizard, is back after a six-year hiatus. The première half-hour was concerned mainly with the elaborate preparations necessary for setting up a color-camera magnifier in order to view underwater life on a giant video screen. Science could be exciting. Not, unfortunately, on this show...
...matter how significantly they equal or excel their male counterparts intellectually, there must be a fifteen to twenty-year hiatus in their intellectual life while they (most of them) fulfill their traditional role as mothers and/or "home-makers...
...most important tasks facing revolutionaries is the creation of serious discussion of the role of terrorism in this society at the present time. Those who have chosen terrorism will not announce a hiatus for us to carry out such discussion: that makes the task all the more urgent. We must disapprove of the indiscriminate character of some of the terrorism that has taken place, and strongly oppose tendencies to constitute terrorism as the core of the movement. Nevertheless, whatever our political disagreements with terrorists-and those disagreements are profound-we mest stress the legitimacy and necessity of violence against imperialism...
...universe. This year, both were scheduled to give a large number of guest concerts with the New York Philharmonic, and several other orchestras. It will certainly be impossible to find men of equal stature, and it will be difficult to find competent men to replace them. There is a hiatus in the world of conductors at the moment; many of the older greats have died and retired, while the talented younger men are still too immature to take their places. A premature elevation to high status can ruin a promising conductor, and the deaths of Szell and Barbirolli would...
...after a 16-year hiatus, which Fry has devoted largely to film scripts and translations of foreign plays. Sun serves as a reminder that his old acclaim and ostracism were both exaggerated. At their best, his plays strike a mean that, if not golden, is a highly polished alloy. Dramatically, he is neither as large nor as small a Fry as he has been taken...