Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...critics' principal target has been the Administration's inept firing of Philadelphia's Republican U.S. Attorney, David W. Marston, who had been digging into political corruption in Pennsylvania. But Civiletti, a former Baltimore attorney who has headed the Justice Department's criminal division for a year, has quite persuasively, and usually patiently, explained again and again that he had nothing to do with Marston's dismissal. In fact, when the Marston controversy became a national political issue, Civiletti was in South Korea interviewing Rice Broker Tongsun Park about the Korean influence-buying scandal...
...artist-with subject matter, sources, influences and his constantly explored ideas on the use of art in the real world-were unwobbling and straightforward. He wanted clear configurations, in theory as in art. His career was almost as long as modernism itself. As a 19-year-old tyro from Philadelphia, he exhibited in the Armory Show in 1913; and he outlived Jackson Pollock by eight years. His early model was cubism-though he did not visit Paris until 1928-and the sight of Davis grappling with the diction of Picasso and Gris, working his way through the lessons with...
...varsity program at the university, compounded the bitterness and disappointment of team members and supporters. The elimination of hockey, along with the announced cancellation of professional theater at the Annenberg Center, formed the emotional basis for what developed into a monumental four-day sit-in at the Philadelphia campus...
...demonstration that enthralled the entire Pennsylvania community and much of the surrounding Philadelphia area. The sit-in attracted so much attention that Stellar, after the agreement had been signed, released the following statement...
...student opinion. The Pennsylvania administration's agreement to establish numerous programs to involve students more directly in the administrative decision-making process is an extremely welcome outcome of the more than 87 hours of negotiations. However, the problem of administrative disregard for student opinion is not limited to the Philadelphia campus...