Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...High School and later at Syracuse, is the whippet-like speed and agility with which he slides past, spins around, or ducks under bigger, clumsier defenders, as he drives in for close-range lay-ups and hooks. He also has fantastic spring. When he uncoils and jumps, his hands reach twelve feet into the air, right up there with Chamberlain and Boston's Bill Russell. With such talents, Bing is inevitably in position for 25 to 30 shots per game-and though only 44% normally go in, he still leads the N.B.A. parade...
...symphony, and in his film score for John Schlesinger's moody translation of the Hardy novel, Bennett writes with a supple sense of melodic line and quiet, iridescent orchestral color. His Symphony offers the proposition that even at the furthest limits of harmony it is possible to reach a listener with broad melodic lines and ruddy emotionality. Although it speaks the orchestral language with assurance, the Symphony is obviously the work of a man who prefers opera to all other musical forms. "Opera is a way of life," he says...
Ubiquitous is the word for TV, for with its vast reach, it tends to level the differences between the city and country child; in the ghettos, it can serve as a kind of head-start program, exposing new worlds that a deprived child would otherwise never see. The drawback, of course, is that much of TV programming has little to do with the real world. Adults are often depicted as bickering, tension-ridden morons. If, for instance, Video Boy had Lucy for a mother and Fred Flintstone for a father, who could blame him if he ran off to join...
...state of children's TV but on the industry as a whole. As Child Psychologist Hilde Himmelweit, author of Television and the Child, says: "It seems to me a devastating indictment that while ten-year-olds still pick up some knowledge from television, by the time they reach 13 only the dull ones do so, and that the more intelligent the child the less the TV hold becomes. Is it perhaps that much of the evening entertainment is at the level of a ten-to eleven-year...
Attention has been turning to new proposals because existing federal programs have not been able to provide massive assistance to students. Since almost all of the current measures must rely on Congressional appropriations for funds, they have been kept relatively small--total aid appropriations for this academic year barely reach one billion dollars. One major plan, the guaranteed loan program passed in 1965, was instituted in an effort to turn from government appropriations to private lending agencies, but its performance has disappointed those who saw it as an alternative to endless government grants. High-interest rates in the past...