Word: shockely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME, July 11). Church groups have denounced it, the opposition has derided it, and some advertisers have pulled away from it. Even a few of ABC'S own affiliates have announced that they will not carry it but will stick with the usual mouthwash instead. Soap will not shock veterans of the late-night Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, but it is daring, and perhaps tasteless, for ABC to carry such a show in prime time. If the reaction is too strong against it, the series could hurt the entire schedule. But if it hits, it would give ABC the same...
Dworkin's theories have created shock waves among jurisprudential scholars, and much of the response is sharply critical. Says Duke University Law Professor George Christie: "Dworkin misconceives what legal decision making is all about. He views it as the search for right answers rather than a process for producing adequate justifications for legal decisions. Actual cases are simply too complicated to abstract into clear rights and clear duties...
...Robin (Craig Russell), and Robin isn't so sure. Liza (Hollis McLaren) hears bells not audible to most people and battles periodically with an evil spirit "from the other place," called the Bonecrusher. Wouldn't she be better off with the nasty shrinks and their mind-killing shock treatments? Certainly not. After all, she has sympathetic friends like Martin (Allan Moyle), a local crazy; and the doctors, as one of Robin's friends says, "gotta spoil all the special people." So Liza moves...
...efficient but illegal industry. Professor Franco Ferrarotti, a sociologist at the University of Rome, argues that "from a social point of view, home industry is slave labor. It is obviously wrong. It would be better to drop it altogether." Yet he concedes, "It works. Black labor acts as a shock absorber enabling Italy to survive economic crises." His conclusion: "This is a very backward -and yet advanced-way of doing things...
...wiry, ruddy-faced redhead, whose shock of tousled hair makes him look about ten years younger than he is, Bosworth has packed a lot of experience into his relatively short career. A protege of Charles Schultze, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Bosworth got his first taste of Government work as a staff member of the CEA in 1968, while he was still working toward a doctorate in economics at the University of Michigan. He joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1969 and stayed until 1971, when he left to sign on at Brookings...