Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distressed to hear of the proposed ban on Porky Pig. As a lifelong stutterer, I have always looked up to Porky as the one institution in America that stutters. The greatest menace to stutterers today is the automatic telephone answering device. It could run out of tape before we get our message across...
This is heresy to Berger. "I've been a lifelong liberal. But protection from dictatorship lies in laws, and laws should be interpreted in light of what the men who wrote them meant to signify," he says...
Julia, based on a section of Lillian Hellman's autobiographical book, "Pentimento," is a sensitive, occasionally self-conscious story of Hellman's lifelong friendship with a woman she calls Julia. The film recounts the girls' adolescent escapades while revealing the foundations of the political beliefs that will eventually take Julia from medical school at Oxford to a workers' community in Vienna. The women are separated through most of their lives; but Julia's need for Hellman's aid in her anti-fascist activities prior to World War II reunite them, with repercussions that even a writer of dime store...
Julia, based on a section of Lillian Hellman's autobiographical book Pentimento, is a sensitive, occasionally self-conscious story of Hellman's lifelong friendship with a woman she calls Julia. The film recounts the girls' adolescent escapades while revealing the foundations of the political beliefs that will eventually take Julia from medical school at Oxford to a workers' community in Vienna. The women are separated through most of their lives; but Julia's need for Hellman's aid in her anti-fascist activities prior to World War II reunite them, with repercussions that even a writer of dime state...
...adult education limited to the classroom, as one new guide to the field points out. The Lifelong Learner, by Ronald Gross, an adjunct associate professor at N.Y.U., chronicles a wealth of public library programs and television courses. And there is always, he adds, the old-fashioned correspondence course. One newfangled participant: Patty Hearst, who while appealing her bank robbery conviction is whiling away the hours with home-study courses...