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...only reference to his troubles was a typical football analogy: "I followed the Falcons, and I guess you would call them the comeback team of 1973," he said. "They lost their first three and they have won their last six. I ought to have a talk with Norm Van Brocklin [the Atlanta Falcons coach] and find out how they...
...latest purge was instigated by the new Georgian party leader, puritanical former Police Chief Eduard Shevardnadze, 45. He was put in his job a year ago to bring the Georgians into line and reduce what a party paper calls their "deviations from the norm of Communist morality." So far he has swept at least 45 officials out of the local party. In addition to economic crimes, the purged party officials were accused of accepting payoffs and, equally vile, indulging in ideological slackness...
...overall amount of TV time devoted to "action" programming has not changed significantly in the past several years. But the focus of that programming has shifted from the western to the urban setting. (There are only three westerns this year, Hec Ramsey, Kung-Fu and granddaddy Gunsmoke.) "When the norm shifts to the urban and contemporary," says Gerbner, "it implies an increased preoccupation with law-and-order and a general fear about the quality of life in our cities...
...form. Perhaps the other two shows were too intellectual for their audience, but Perry Mason lasted nine years and declined in the ratings only after CBS scheduled it opposite Bonanza. It was immensely popular in its original form, yet in revival it has been reduced to the vapid TV norm...
...America is fortunate in that no public passion seems to endure very long. Harvard Sociologist Seymour Lipset has calculated that American social obsessions-from Know Nothingism to McCarthyism -have a life cycle of four to five years. After that they quickly fade. The generational battle was true to the norm...