Word: information
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discussions will attempt to inform parents of the concerns of women students and to promote discussion of these issues between students and their parents, Susan Liguori, staff assistant in the Office of Women's Education, said yesterday...
...under your SAT instruction booklet, Rand talks freely of the path upon which he skied into Cambridge, of the April morning in '75 when he received four letters in the mail--from Harvard, Bowdoin, Vermont and Colorado College--and they all said "No." As in "We are sorry to inform you that we are unable to offer you a place in next year's freshman class...
Islands in the Stream, based on Hemingway's posthumous 1970 novel, is more serious. It is an attempt to capture the elusive strains of tenderness and generosity that could inform Hemingway's writing when he stopped beating his breast. But except for George C. Scott in the leading role, it attempts to do this without anything approaching Hemingway's gifts, tarnished and erratic though they were toward the last. It remains an attempt-earnest and labored. After watching it, one is tempted to say: Come back, Howard Hawks...
...long run, I suppose it doesn't matter who the readers are; the point is they must be out there, gulping in huge dollops of information and advice about the "real" world. The schlock tabloids might tell it like it isn't, but no one seems to be complaining. They are, after all, a basic form of entertainment media. And like our other media, they aim to titillate rather than inform...
...orange chair was CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite, an avuncular master of ceremonies who was hardly needed, so smoothly and knowledgeably did the President field the questions and set the gentle tone that graced the day. Even the high hard pitches drew nothing from the President but the desire to inform. Why are Son Chip and his family living on the taxpayers' money in the White House? "All personal expenses are paid for out of my own pocket," said the President, disclaiming any "mooching off the American taxpayers." How come married couples pay higher tax rates than singles? What about...