Word: schreibers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phrase, the young are battling "the whole of modern life"?what they regard as meaningless work, abuse of the environment, the dwindling opportunities for adolescent self-definition at a time when puberty arrives earlier than ever. In recent testimony before Congress, France's Journalist-Politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber argued that the revolt of the young is aimed at the "excesses of economic competition" and cannot be "eradicated by the elders in a fit of blind rage." Businessmen themselves, he said, "know the sincerity of their children's concern. They get it at the breakfast table...
Investigating the puzzle, two scientists at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory checked what they drily called "much earlier speculations concerning the nature of the moon." Geophysicists Edward Schreiber and Orson L. Anderson carefully compared the sound-conducting properties of two lunar rocks with those of a wide assortment of cheeses. The result: Wisconsin muenster conveyed sound slightly faster than one moon rock; Norwegian goat cheese responded almost precisely like the other rock...
Reporting their playful experiment, Schreiber and Anderson prudently make no claims of having solved the puzzle. All they say in Science is that their work "leads us to suspect that perhaps old hypotheses are best, after all, and should not be lightly discarded...
...During 20 months of detention, Theodorakis, a Communist, wrote the score for the current award-winning movie Z* and had it smuggled out of Greece. He also wrote the musical score for Zorba the Greek. Theodorakis flew off in a jet chartered by French Publisher-Politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. At Paris' Le Bourget Airport, he was greeted by 100 Greek opponents of the Athens government, including Actress Melina Mercouri...
Persistent Pressure. Servan-Schreiber's precise role in obtaining Theodorakis' release was unclear. The pro-Gaullist Le Figaro, no friend of the man who founded the anti-Gaullist magazine L'Express and is secretary-general of France's rejuvenated Radical Party, called it A PUBLICITY STUNT in headlines. Cynics pointed out that the Greek junta had already quietly informed the Council of Europe that it was willing to release Theodorakis...