Word: segments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...produced for public television, grownups coach, suggest, choreograph and keep a professional rein on things, thus avoiding the anarchy and flatness that sometimes bedevil NBC's hourlong, live Take a Giant Step. But the kids have the last say. Producer Christopher Sarson originally wanted a problem-solving segment patterned after the "Dear Abby" column, but the Zoom cast vetoed the idea: they felt they lacked the experience to solve problems for their peers. At the end of last week's show, they urged young viewers ("Zoomers") to write in for song lyrics and game instructions, and to provide...
...audience participation segment of the meeting was interupted at 8:35 p.m. by a bomb scare...
Germany's worst strike in eight years is only the latest example of the contagion of labor unrest sweeping Europe. In Britain, strikes have cost 13 million work days this year. In Sweden, a siege of labor trouble affected almost every segment of the work force, including teachers, civil servants and army officers. The situation has been worst of all in Italy where, since the au-tunno caldo (hot autumn) of 1969, total labor costs have risen...
...stand on a man who writes theories and not policies. Within the realm of ideas, however, individuals Faculty members have the right--and, in our opinion, the obligation--to challenge Herrnstein's article. Some Faculty members have done so. But a larger group has only attacked the most vocal segment of Herrnstein's critics. The threat of Herrnstein's ideas is more dangerous than the imagined threat of SDS and UAG to intellectual freedom...
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee was for weeks the best-selling non-fiction book in America. It is difficult to say whether this is because the country, or at least that segment of the country that still has $10.95 to spend on a book, is at last willing to come to terms with its past, and more importantly, come to terms with the demands of the errors of the past on the energies of the present and future. It may be that the book-buying public, after all of the sex manuals, was prime for a non-fiction book...