Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lecture halls overflowed yesterday as many students failed even to gain access to the classrooms of several popular courses...
...Synthesis, published in 1975 by Harvard University Press. Wilson seeks to establish sociobiology as "the systematic study of the biological basis of all social behavior." The Harvard University Press launched a massive advertising campaign for Sociobiology, and the book soon received enthusiastic reviews and widespread publicity in professional and popular media...
Movies have expended much effort, and received scant reward, trying to revive that beloved figure of another age's popular culture-the private eye. They have lovingly re-created his old ambience (Farewell, My Lovely) and succeeded only in embalming him. They have also tried transplanting him, old knightly virtues intact, into our own time. But whether aware of his awkwardness in this era (The Black Bird) or seemingly oblivious of it (The Long Goodbye), the resulting films have been discomfiting...
Aired over eight consecutive nights, Roots came up roses for ABC. Haley's story, recounting his ancestors' brutal passage from life in Africa through slavery in America, attracted nearly 80 million viewers on its third night, making that episode the third most popular TV presentation in history. With almost seven out of every ten sets in use tuned to the drama, the only shows that have had a bigger audience were NBC's screenings of Gone With the Wind...
...price reduction there would be matched by price increases for rooms in the most popular River Houses. A "grandfather clause" would exempt students already living there from the increase, of course. Scholarship students would be partially exempted, too, in the interests of equity. To maintain Radcliffe's four-year mix, incoming freshmen could be informed of the new rate structure before they sent in their rooming choice cards. To maintain Radcliffe's ratio near one-to-one, it's possible that one sex or the other would need an additional discount...