Word: originality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more often than he damns him; a National Review editor who frequently ridicules Ronald Reagan; a conservative who decided Richard Nixon was guilty of impeachable crimes more than a year before his resignation; and an academic who, at least until recently, called himself a Republican, and who traces the origin of his conservative outlook to his disappointments as a youthful fan of the Chicago Cubs. If there is a key to understanding him, it seems to be his fundamental pessimism. He intends to write a book someday called The Decline and Fall of Everything...
...institution has its historical roots in the fear of rape; that the rapist is the ultimate guardian of male privilege; that rape is "the conscious process by which all men keep all women in a state of fear." But she persuasively argues that all forms of oppression have their origin in the often brutal reality of unequal physical power and that this primal fact of life continues to define and distort relationships between the sexes...
...more than 100 cases, the trustbusters have taken on industrial giants of both European and U.S. origin, including Kodak (for price fixing) and Pittsburgh Corning (for charging widely different prices in neighboring countries). EEC regulators have forced the dissolution of a price-fixing aluminum cartel, broken up a sugar price-fixing arrangement, and punished with a $200,-000 fine the Italian subsidiary of New York-based Commercial Solvents Corp. for refusing to sell anti-TB drugs to an Italian company that had resisted a takeover bid. Some 40 department detectives now show up without warning at company offices throughout...
...conceivable dramatic calorie count, the plot courts starvation. The setting is a drafty, government-sponsored art studio, a cross between a ratty garret and an army barracks. Several young men and women of working-class origin drift in. Their teacher, Allott (Kevin Conway), has come earlier, as has Stella (Veronica Castang), the nude model. As the students stand at their sketch boards, it is quickly apparent that they are wholly inept and could not tell Degas from dandruff. They are whiling away the days on a subsidized boondoggle, and for them art is what Writer Rose Macaulay once said...
Barbara E. White and Christiane Joost-Gaugier are charging Tufts with a violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which says that any person who feels unfairly dealt with "by an employer because of race, color, religion, national origin or sex" has the right to file charges with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC...