Word: orientedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE CAME ABOUT in the early 1960s a "new wave" in science fiction, much as there had 25 years before when science fiction broke away from Buck Rogers--Flash Gordon space opera. On the crest of the wave--which demanded that science fiction be less technically oriented and more an...
In the U.S. the Olympics are the exclusive turf-and track, pool and arena-of ABC. The Montreal Games will be ABC's sixth Olympics of the past eight. For the rights to beam the competition into the U.S. and to provide a "visual feed" to Latin America, ABC...
Of course, Wolfe isn't able to carry this through without inconsistencies and almost constant maiming of facts. At certain points in the piece the American intellectual is a moron, a pretentious ape who stores but cannot read back issues of The New York Review of Books. The kind of...
¶ City officials got a boost from the court in their struggle to prevent neighborhoods from declining into sleazy centers of sex-oriented bookstores and porno movie theaters. According to a 5-to-4 majority, zoning that affects only the locale for disseminating such marginal forms of free speech does...
Ten days after graduation, Endicott Peabody Jr. '71 went out to Colorado and joined the Colorado National Bank as a management trainee. "There was a lot of ferment and people who were restless and anxious to do something about the Vietnam war in some form," Peabody said last week about...