Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about $6,000 a year. To eke out a living, many men have had to work outside the Gap, some, like Gale Webb, the father of six children, journeying 50 miles a day to Johnson City, across the state line in Tennessee. There are other concessions to the modern world in Brumley Gap. TV sets, for instance, and souped-up pickup trucks. Since last May, moreover, a blue APCO work trailer has been parked on Route 698 to serve as an advance base for surveying teams. But most people have lived in the Gap all their lives, and life...
Turkey does not have the authoritarian one-man rule of a Shah as a unifying target for fragmented opposition. Modernization began earlier and was less hectic. It also produced a wider distribution of wealth and a stronger middle class than it did in Iran. Turkey's overwhelmingly Muslim population of 40 million includes 6 million Shi'ites, who are spiritual kin to those in Iran. But thanks to the secularization imposed on Turkey by its modern (1923) founder, Kemal Atatürk, religion is not nearly the force it has always been in Iran...
Wilcox said Bailyn discussed about five broad survey courses which would fulfill the first half of the Core history requirement--"Historical Orientation to the Present." These classes should examine a global aspect of the modern world...
...University's greaftest faux pas is made at the expense of Harvard's dancers, who still remain in limbo. They have felt the worst aspects of both the Harvard arts tradition and the modern budget squeeze. Dance and choreography, unlike drama or music, cannot be studied without performing. Dance, which has forever been a part of man's culture, has only in the past year come to be represented in the Harvard curriculum, and then only as a pirouette into cultural history. In their defense, Radcliffe and the Council for Performing Arts have strongly supported extra-curricular dance efforts; dancers...
...clear as it is now. Right after the airing of Roots 1, Stoddard, Margulies and Executive Producer David Wolper were reluctant to make a sequel. Little by little, however, they started exploring the possibilities: Haley began dictating family recollections into a tape recorder to expand the 40-page modern section of his book. Once Haley had spilled 1,000 pages of memories, Television Writer Ernest Kinoy (The Defenders, Playhouse 90) got to work on a "bible" for the show. Kinoy turned in a 350-page outline, and ABC gave the go-ahead for the production...