Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good time to be a local group trying to make a go of it in New York. Medium-sized establishments like the Fillmore East--which has since closed--gave lesser known groups a chance on bills with more popular groups...
...first time the rock culture really got a sense of its own history. It was like experiencing a moment of maturity through this medium everybody had been listening to. It was like a cultural bar mitzvah...
...fact that Quebec is a distinct French and Catholic cultural entity or nation within Canada. It is a culture with a unique heritage that remains insulated from North American mass culture by its linguistic shell. The protection of this culture, and of the French language which serves as its medium, is understandably a major concern for Quebeckers, and for Prime Minister Levesque...
...approach looked more promising. Above all, it must be squared with overriding U.S. security interests. Vance persuaded Marshall Shulman, Columbia Sovietologist, to switch from a part-time consulting job at the State Department to a full-time post as the Secretary's adviser on Soviet affairs. Not coincidentally, the medium-soft-line Shulman serves as a kind of academic counterweight to the NSC's Brzezinski...
Talon by James Coltrane (Bobbs-Merrill; $8.95). In his first suspense novel, James Coltrane-in real life a Hawaii-based lawyer named James P. Wohl, 41-shows himself a young master of the medium. His antihero, Joe Talon, is a superefficient analyst of satellite photos for the CIA in Manhattan. He is also an unrepentantly laid-back hankerer for the surf-and-grass California scene. When Talon detects a curious and erroneous-or doctored?-cloud cover masking a remote area of Nepal, he bucks the Establishment to prove his suspicions, survives sundry assassination attempts and blows open a nasty conspiracy...