Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tuesday, October 7 FROM HERE TO THE SEVENTIES (NBC, 8:30-1 1 p.m.). The problems of today (race, environment, hunger, overpopulation) and the concerns of the future (sexual permissiveness, space, today's youth grown up) are given serious consideration by twelve top news commentators, including John Chancellor, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Edwin Newman, Barbara Walters, Elie Abel, Aline Saarinen. Actor Paul Newman is the viewer's guide through the thicket of subjects...
Captain Keith Colburn, Roy Shaw, and Dave Pottetti are all running better this week, but Pottetti was complaining yesterday about a new ailment, which did not appear to be too serious, but which nevertheless concerns coach Bill McCurdy...
...Although we don't necessarily think that the Faculty should take a stand on all political issues, we feel this one is of special importance," Ptashne said. "The situation with the war is so serious that to say nothing is to take a stand...
Consider this summer as an example. After a weak start with an expose of overly-loud music at rock'n'-roll halls-a topic that never caught the serious public interest he hoped for-Nader coverd a series of weightier topies. In July, he told George McGovern's Special Senate Committee on Nutrition about the built-in dangers of modern American food, he was later invited to serve on a White House panel on the subject. Shortly afterward there was an exhaustive report on the threat of "brown lung" for workers in textile mills-a report that surprised many public...
Nearing the climax of his indictment, Nader said that the universities' negligence was "an extremely serious failure when stacked up against the amount of intellectual acumen and resources available." As a consequence of this abdication, corporate America has been able to mount an institutionalized assault on everything of value in American society: the free choice marketplace is a hoax: the Great Lakes verge on irreversible pollution; the social system is "productive but imbalanced...