Word: orality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...break. The reports were limited to five typewritten pages, but there was no restriction on appen dixes. Chicago's theorists produced eleven. All teams met the noon deadline (Dartmouth with seconds to spare), adjourned for some sleep, then returned to spartan workrooms in the business school to prepare oral defenses...
Actor Lee Marvin, 52, shoots up the Wild West in style, but he lost his first showdown with the California Supreme Court. Marvin's legal troubles began when his ex-roommate filed suit against him. Her claim: the two made an oral agreement to share all property accumulated during the time they lived together (1964-70). Michelle Triola Marvin, as she calls herself, demanded that the actor ante up a solid million-including shares in film rights, a home in Malibu, and an island in the South Pacific. Though Marvin denied that such an agreement was ever made...
...also received a $99,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to compile transcripts of oral histories of black women now alive in America...
FLORIDA: In July the Justices had voted 7 to 2 that the state's new law was constitutional because it provided clear guidelines for deciding whether a particular murderer deserved death. But last week, while listening to oral arguments in a new Florida case. Justice Potter Stewart suddenly took off his glasses and angrily leaned back in his chair. "This court," he told stale lawyers, "upheld that statute on the representation of the state of Florida that this was an open and aboveboard proceeding. This case gets here, and it's apparent that it isn't." What...
Humanities 9a, "Oral and Popular Literature," with an enrollment of 307 students, meets in the Geological Lecture Room, which has a capacity...