Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AMERICA'S popular culture, the most durable product this nation has for exportation to the rest of the Western world, is a constantly changing conglomeration of fads, life-styles and heroes: about forty years ago it was crossword puzzles and dance marathons; in the fifties it was quiz-shows and hoola hopps; in the last decade it was the twist and Jackie Kennedy. The culture moves so fast that one never can be quite sure of what is happening until the latest issue of Life (mainstream-pop culture) or Rolling Stone (counter pop-culture) arrives in the mail...
...capital of Somalia, have renamed streets for him. According to Tass, Indian students have asked their Soviet friends to send them seedlings from Ulyanovsk because "they want to grow trees from the motherland of Lenin." He was the subject of an "international" meeting in Bamako, Mali, and of a quiz show on Radio Sierra Leone. A program called Lenin Soirées is reported to be "greatly popular with televiewers in Brazzaville," while in Paris, "thousands of excursionists" have visited the apartment on Rue Marie-Rose where Lenin once lived. Tass failed to note, however, that the Paris city council...
...interview drew to a close, David Boorstin, director of Morning, Noon, and Night, dropped by, and the three of us headed for Elsie's where Horovitz challenged his two companions to a game or two of Computer Quiz (he beat us both, but chose the field of Entertainment) and quite naturally making one of the transitions from his life to the theatre, left with Boorstin to see the technical rehearsal of his two plays, which were opening in three days the Charles Playhouse where he was once a propman...
...brief study of Chicanos (Mexican Americans) practically back to the time of the conquistadors. On the scene in the summer of 1968, Reporter Matthiessen gets down the local color, checks out some picket lines, balances his story by interviewing some of the biggest growers, and even manages to quiz a few bystanders. What does the waitress at the local dairy freeze think of it all? No comment...
...answers to this quiz and the winners' names will be published in Tuesday's CRIMSON. All undergraduates at Harvard and Radcliffe are eligible to win the grand prize; other readers may enter, but their entries will not count. An individual may represent a group of students. Decision of the judges is final...