Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...central theme of the Republican Convention was that it was the "Open Door" convention, a convention based not on quotas but on the justice of a proven political process. The President struck home in his acceptance speech: "You (the delegates) have demonstrated to the nation that we can have an open convention without "dividing Americans into quotas ... the way to end discrimination against some is not to begin discrimination against others...
...Labor Day, he (or she) coaxes colleagues away from a leisurely meal, hauls them up from blankets in the sun and hammocks in the shade-all in the name of Sport. For the victim, no pest coil or 90-day collar will serve as repellent. No, the only proven method of defense is Summer Gamesmanship...
...past 40 years, the U.S. Public Health Service has conducted a study in which people with syphilis were induced to go without treatment so that science could determine the disease's effects on the human body. For the past 25 years, the service has had a proven remedy available and neglected to use it on its select test cases-in the name of science...
Franz Liszt's Greatest Hits of the 1 850s (Jorge Bolet pianist; RCA, $5.98). Considering the lethargy of the classical-record business these days, RCA may be forgiven for dressing this LP in the sales-proven "greatest hits" garb. For in this 40-minute collection of piano transcriptions by the granddaddy of all transcribers, Bolet has come up with what will surely be one of the piano records of the year. Liszt's Reminiscences of Lucia di Lammermoor or Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto requires a fusion of talents comparable to those of an expert novelist who is also...
...lack of grounds for appeal-the girl spy repeatedly changed her story and the legality of the bugging was at least questionable-but when New York's highest court struck down the conviction last week, it offered a more basic reason: "No crime was charged or proven...