Word: junior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Producers. It is amazing, but there are some people who haven't ever seen it; more amazing still are the ones who hate it. My junior roommate from Rochester, New York, really a marvelous guy and a cineaste to boot, just couldn't see why this was so funny. (Senator Moynihan would try to tell him Eth-nic-ity, but that's not the answer.) This was Mel Brooks' first feature and it reaches heights Catskillian. Surely if one had the chance to show a class of Martians any ten American comedies, this would be included in the green syllabus...
...subject will no doubt supply thesis meat forever. The Ten rival Alger Hiss in library entries, and they too (although to a considerably lesser extent than Hiss) had the pleasure of being hounded by junior Javert Richard Nixon. Now, with the making of a new documentary called Hollywood on Trial, the scab has been torn open again. Expect screams. Old Dalton Trumbo, who talked his head off about the subject, having suffered deeply and survived, died several weeks ago. Someone is sure to stick a microphone through the freshly packed dirt of his grave to catch his last excoriations...
Others express a "them-or-us" attitude toward the labor dispute, which centers primarily on union wage demands. "My reasons for opposing the strikers' demands are simple," Jane Spectre, a junior, said this week. "If we give them a pay raise, we'll get a tuition hike...
...college dorms where students congregated to watch the confrontation, turnouts were generally small and enthusiasm was minimal. Carter held a clear advantage with the young voters. Many became bored long before the 90 minutes had expired, and left. The sentiment of Leslie Langnau, a junior at Michigan State, was widely shared: "I wish I had a prepared sheet of facts. Carter would say one thing and Ford would say another. They can't both be right." At the University of California at Berkeley, Lester Antman, 19, had no difficulty picking a winner. His choice: Panelist Elizabeth Drew. Many students thought...
...Depression, he advised F.D.R. on unemployment policies and later helped set up the Social Security system. After serving in the Marines during World War II (he lost the use of his left arm when hit by enemy fire on Okinawa), Douglas traveled to Washington in 1949 as the junior Senator from Illinois. Many of the causes he campaigned for-civil rights, truth in lending, tax reform, Medicaid, campaign finance reform-have since become law. His steadfast support of the Viet Nam War contributed to his defeat by Republican Charles Percy...