Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seem odd, but thanks to a road trip which (as of last night) had produced six straight losses, Harvard should be a better team...
...esteem, is to make a dramatic declaration turning over his powers to an interim ruling group of elder statesmen. Otherwise, he faces the slow disintegration of his army and, eventually, his entire country." As of last week, this was one bit of U.S. advice that the Shah did not seem anxious to take...
Still, though most union leaders are publicly backing Meany, they will make what seem the best deals for their members. By the luck of the draw, the first union to negotiate under the guidelines is the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers, with more than 60,000 members; their contracts expire Jan. 7. In some ways, Carter could not have chosen a better target had he been able to pick OCAW deliberately. The union's members are well paid; counting shift premiums, they average $9.32 an hour. Moreover, oil refineries are so automated that OCAW could strike and hardly anybody...
...year amply confirmed that escapist trend. Made for a mere pittance ($2.5 million), National Lampoon's Animal House, a high-velocity farce about fraternity life in the '60s, has made $102 million. Crude and silly, Animal House has an abundance of animal spirits, which is what audiences seem to want. Whatever the reason for its success, "Animal House is just the beginning, not the end," says Paramount Head Barry Diller. "That kind of Saturday Night Live consciousness, that visual entertainment, will become a" staple," Another zany sleeper was Up in Smoke, one long giggle...
...small measure of the astonishing gifts of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller that all these songs have already slipped so securely into contemporary tradition that they seem less like the work of writers than the product of a shared musical history. That is as it should be, since Leiber and Stoller always worked best close to the roots. In a sense, they even became part of the roots, a fact richly demonstrated in a new book, Baby, That Was Rock & Roll (Harvest/HBJ; $6.95), that is part song compendium, part photo album, part biographical appreciation, and all long past...