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...temperate mood is transforming the ways in which the nation works, plays and socializes. New attitudes toward careers, fitness and the very image of what we are and wish to become are being altered. Americans are tackling the entrenched social problems of abusive drinking with a new rigor. The neotemperance has already inspired tough drunk-driving laws to combat highway bloodshed (see following story). Basic to it all: people are drinking lighter and drinking less, and seem to be proud of it. A new poll conducted for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc., showed that only 67% of the nation...
...will stop to admire the sight of a Texas fishing boat cutting through the muddy water and purple sky, or linger over the electric heat in the slow dance of Madigan and Harris before their ideals fatally collide. But once it gets going, Alamo Bay delivers its argument with rigor and passion...
...conclusion of the play seems a bit on the corny side, it is, in light of the overall tone of the production, appropriately uplifting. The play makes no pretensions of exploring moral conflict with any real rigor, and it is in fact precisely because the cast sidesteps the temptation to treat the show as a spinoll of Sister Mary Ignatius that it works so well...
...trying to undo the problems of he public schools, thought, reformers threaten to introduce a new conformity in elementary and secondary education. The era in education that created Westside Alternative School is associated with a permissiveness and a quest for relevance that demolished intellectual rigor Projects that emphasized progressive education open condors, community schools, alternative or school-within-a-school programs--are being phased but their students directed back into mainstream education. When school boards consider projects beyond improvement of the local school, they reflect the values of 1980s material culture rather than free thought: the Los Angeles Board...
...scientists, who have amassed such overwhelming geological, paleontological and biological evidence that evolution has shaped the course of life on earth that they take the theory for granted, sort of like the law of gravity. On the other side are the creationists, who apply the language but not the rigor of science to defend a literal interpretation of Genesis. As the creationists see it, the universe and solar system were born only 10,000 years ago, humans trod the earth in the company of hulking dinosaurs, and evolution is a false idol. Although they have lost legal battles in Arkansas...