Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...security policemen swooped down on the crowd of several hundred people gathered at the wall. Scuffling with foreign observers at the scene the police confiscated about 500 copies of the trial transcript and arrested three would-be buyers and a man who was helping sell copies of the underground journal called April Fifth Forum that had published the transcript. When a Forum editor, Liu Qing, went to the police station to inquire after the imprisoned men, he too was arrested...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and chairm of the Committee on Women's Studies said yesterday that the committee has already scheduled three other speakers for the academic year including Katherine R. Stimpson, professor of English Literature at Barnard and editor-in-chief of "Signs", a leading journal in the field of women's studies...
November's price increases bear out his prediction. Global oil supplies are plentiful, yet prices continue to soar. The oil companies "are stockpiling oil as fast as it can be produced," reports the Wall Street Journal...
...Psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 53, traveled 250,000 miles a year as a star of the U.S. lecture circuit. Her outline of the five phases of death-from angry denial to final acceptance-is routinely taught at school and hospital seminars. Readers of the Ladies' Home Journal chose Kübler-Ross as one of eleven "women of the decade" for the 1970s. Even the movies are beginning to take account of the phenomenon: Bob Fosse's forthcoming film, All That Jazz, features a death-obsessed dancer-director who turns to Kübler-Ross...
...what we cannot help," Updike observes grimly. In another tale of marital wrangling, then, the wife gets through to her husband only by inducing desperation like a "hooked claw," evolving "psychic protuberances that penetrated and embraced his mind." Just in case you didn't get it, in "The Journal of the Leper," the leprous creature is no longer loved by his woman once he is cured. So instead his characters learn to withdraw; they stick wax ear plugs in their ears like the unidentified man in "Commercial" and block out all but the "subterranean whistling noise" of their own breathing...