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Word: roundedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Rosovsky came out with his core curriculum requirements for undergraduate education, most people failed to notice that the University does not deem any academic study of any aspect of women necessary to the well-rounded education of a Harvard student (one is tempted to say, "of a Harvard man...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Hold Up Half the Sky | 3/11/1977 | See Source »

The mood was set by a shockingly savage act committed in the Rhodesian village of Musami, some 40 miles northeast of Salisbury. On Sunday evening, a dozen black guerrillas in battle dress descended on St. Paul's Mission School, hastily rounded up eight white priests and nuns and murdered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Anxious for A New Start | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

Though few could argue with Roots' impact, some scholars did find fault with its accuracy. "The manhood rite of the Mandinkan tribe took three or four years, not a couple of days," noted Dr. Andrew Billingsley, president of Morgan State University. "The series overdoes the black participation in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Roots Grows Into a Winner | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

Open Letters. Richard Nixon's handwriting is just terrible, and so was J.F.K.'s. The penmanship of most Americans is not much better. According to the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association, many thousands of federal tax returns are held up each year because the IRS cannot make out the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Odds & Trends | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

Murdoch had never played two-up with a newspaper, and he was eager to try for a run. So in 1956 he bought a Sunday paper in Perth for $400,000, then four years later spent $4 million for the Sydney Daily Mirror, a racy tabloid weakened by incessant circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BATTLE OF NEW YORK | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

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