Word: ribbons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knifes through Los Angeles' West Hollywood residential district, Santa Monica becomes a garish, grubby, milelong gauntlet of sex-book stalls, theaters and 8-mm. peep shows for voyeurs, and massage parlors and sexual encounter centers for those who want direct action. The Boulevard is a flexible ribbon of smut that expands or contracts according to the apathy or indignation of the surrounding stucco-house neighborhoods. It is, in a way, a bit of the Old West, a semilawless, laissez-faire street of chance, a zone of temptation and humiliation, harshly lit by neon signs that crackle their messages: ADULT, ENTER...
...departure from Conant's example, he has consciously chosen not to hinge his magnum opus on the work of a prestigious group of wise men. "We avoided that from the very beginning, we don't operate that way," Rosovsky says, even though he specifically mentioned creating a "blue-ribbon" panel in his February 1974 announcement. By creating the task forces, Rosovsky says, he hoped to gather as many ideas as possible ("they are one of the hardest things to get") and to develop a broad base of support in the Faculty for proposed changes. The task forces include about...
...persuade everyone simultaneously, you will fail." It was a failure to recognize the Law of the Wet String that brought a swift demise to the reviews of undergraduate education at Yale and Princeton in the early 1970s. Both hinged on the work of a single blue-ribbon committee, and both faltered when they tried to gain faculty approval...
...loan opportunities, Wriston spends part of his time seeking to enlighten the public and Government in speeches and papers. His confident grasp of world trends and his wry wit make him a refreshingly able advocate. At the height of the Arab oil embargo, Wriston reminded a blue-ribbon Detroit audience that whale oil, once one of the nation's chief means of lighting, doubled in price during the Civil War only to disappear from the market later as lower-priced kerosene usurped its role...
...ever enforced. One reason may be that having a medal does not involve much in the way of an earthly reward; the holder of the lowest grade of the Legion of Honor, for example, gets the princely stipend of $5 a year. On the other hand, the red ribbon sometimes impresses policemen and plumbers, and according to one recipient, "it helps to get better service in restaurants...