Word: retains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...becoming frayed. The national political drama once simply excited people, but now the plot has become too complicated, the actors have confused their lines, and the audience is tired. "J'en ai marle" ("I'm fed up with it") is the most frequently-heard comment concerning politics. Only extremists retain unwavering loyalty to their causes, while most Frenchmen find themselves increasingly disaffected with the parties they support. And nearly everyone worries about the prospect of political critis this spring...
When large sports-oriented schools in the NCAA cut their budget by phasing out freshman teams in some sports during the early '70s, the Ivy League voted to retain freshman teams, Kaufmann added...
...talented, innovative group that is at its best on the stage, rather than in the studio, where most groups hibernate. In some ways, however, the Dead seem stuck in the debris of the late '60s; their music has the raw, unreconstructed sound of earlier groups, and they retain their oft-publicized position as the high priests of acid. Despite the death by excess in everything, particularly alcohol, of the immortal Pigpen (Ron McKernan) back in 1973, the Dead roll on, forever, it seems. Garcia (Captain Trips himself and the director of the movie), Lesh, Weir, kreutzman and Hart have played...
...whole Northwest, and most especially Washington, is entering a crucial phase, one that will decide whether the region can retain the very elements that distinguish it, in substance and flavor, if not literally in every forest and windswept stretch of coastline. Dixy Lee Ray, herself an increasing source of controversy, is right in the middle of the struggle and delighted to be there. With the subtlety of a Seattle stevedore, she is bulldozing ahead on the key issues. Among them...
...much more crammed inside that Mount Rushmore noggin. Sevareid was among the most articulate, most literate and most judicious of television sages. In a farewell address last week, he summed up some of the lessons he has learned in a half-century as a journalist. Prominent among them: "To retain the courage of one's doubts, as well as one's convictions, in this world of dangerously passionate certainties...