Word: segmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...successor will be selected by the seven-man Harvard Corporation, which consists of Pusey, the university treasurer and five fellows. The decision must be approved by the 32 members of the Board of Overseers. Corporation Fellow Francis H. Burr, a Boston lawyer, will solicit suggestions from every segment of the Harvard community -overseers, alumni, faculty, students and perhaps even employees. "The search," he says, "will be as broad as possible and as unstructured as I can make...
What is most irritating about Schaap's style is his blatant pandering to a narrow audience. One chapter entiled, "I Like My Girls Blond and My Johnnie Walker Red," is devoted to Namath, the stud, and one can just imagine the segment of America that fancies itself he-man. Schlitz-drinking, duck-shooting and hard-loving smugly saying, "Yeah, goddamn, Namath's one of US, Fcrissake...
...description of drama as documentary arose from the fact that Bird is one series that is not phony, but deeply felt. The staff is largely black and inexperienced, and often plots are simplistic. The dialogue is sometimes stilted, the acting amateurish. The production budget (averaging $21,000 per segment) was about one-fifth of what the networks pay for a prime-time show - and looked...
...sales of the entire recorded-music business, up from 3% or 4% in 1966. Though the sound of new disk records is generally thought to be better, the quality of tapes tends to last much longer because they use no needles. The recorded tapes have become the fastest-growing segment of Ampex's domestic business. In eight years under President William Roberts, the company's sales have climbed from $84 million to $296 million and its profits from $3.8 million to $13.7 million...
...Policemen are standing in the usual little clumps, foundling their enormous nightsticks, as if (does it need saving?) they were the longest hardest pricks in the world. We have only what we have, and we are certainly not fondling anything as it grows colder and colder. And a whole segment of the march line on Tremont Street is jumping up and down with blood curdling pogo stick yells, but it is only to keep warm. (How many people here have seen Battle of Algiers...