Word: periods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...VIOLENCE. Potentially interesting subjects, especially when you're talking about television. Robert Wood, one-time president of CBS, for example, vetoes a script for The Waltons because it describes (in lurid and graphic detail) Mary Ellen's "confused reaction to her first menstrual period." Lee Grant--Phyllis to sitcom junkies-- asks her daughter whether she lost her virginity on a ski weekend with a group of teenagers. "The subject matter was simply unacceptable for Family Viewing. It dealt too directly with sex." CBS editors jokingly called the episode--which the writer titled "Bess, Is You a Woman Now,"--"Did Bess...
...unable to sign the faculty letter on South Africa because it asks too little too late. This is no longer the time to "support or initiate shareholder resolutions" for corporate withdrawal with the stipulation that, if these fail, one will "seek additional support for a period of a year or two [our italics] among other stockholders," and only then, when this does not bring about corporate withdrawal, to "adopt a policy of strategic divestiture." The struggle has been going on too long, and other universities have begun to divest. This is not the time to start a slow walk...
...Something old, something new..." It's from a wedding I heard once, somewhere. Old and new--well, that's what we're talking about in the reading period assignment for the crew final. Not exactly something, but rather Someone...
Harvard stormed back for four straight goals in the third period, three of them blazers by Faught, but UMass answered with four of its own, and it was over...
Gordie Nelson scored three times in the first period and Peter Predun, playing his first game since April 14, tallied three with a cast on his right hand. "If Predun didn't have that cast it might have turned out differently," Garber said...