Word: ses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surgery at a San Francisco hospital, and he is acted with consummate world-weariness by Pernell Roberts. A few grafted-on references to M*A*S*H notwithstanding, the show turns out to be nothing but an inept Marcus Welby retread. The plotting is vague, the tedious medical cri ses are easily averted, and the comedy leaden. As always in this genre, there is a young sidekick for the middle-aged hero. This time out, the second banana calls himself Gonzo, purports to be a Viet Nam veteran, looks and acts like a fashion mod el and lives...
Despite the conservative trend and the new combativeness of Republicans, Byrd quickly took charge of the 96th ses sion. "Bobby Byrd has a hammer inside that velvet glove," says Cranston. The man who plays a mean fiddle off-hours displayed some fan cy footwork on the Senate floor last week. Frustrated in past sessions by the increased use of the filibuster and the postcloture filibuster, Byrd decided to do something about both obstructionist tactics. After much study, he was convinced, just be fore the session began, that he had found an answer, though he was not telling anybody what...
...could be transferred from one agency to another and who would be paid according to merit. Ruth Van Cleve, an Interior Department employee, expressed a common concern that such executives might be subjected to political pressure if they wanted to keep their jobs or get more money. Carter said SES membership would be voluntary; if its members were not happy in their posts, they could return to their old categories with full legal protection. Besides, the new program would impose a 10% limit on political appointees in the federal bureaucracy...
...have long since absorbed. That local double bill, for example: Suburban Wives and Tower of Screaming Virgins. Four years ago, it would have been restricted to a few downtown grind-houses. Today, blue-movie palaces are as much a part of the suburbs as the wildly proliferating McDonald'ses. Shaking his head, the new Van Winkle heads for a newsstand. Here, there is still more catching up to do. A copy of Look? No way. Life? No more. How about a copy of Crawdaddy, Screw, Money, Rolling Stone? Rip has heard of none of them. He looks, dazed...
...social and economic factors in molding working-class "authoritarianism", and then avoiding its wrath, is of great importance to us here. It is necessary to ascertain what makes Communism such a "highly visible" target for hate-filled attacks; some outside stimulus must be present that those low in SES should focus to such a great extent their "confusion and outrage" on Communism...