Word: spate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chief cause has been the recent spate of celebrated cases in which police agents played a role-from the trials of the Chicago Seven and the Seattle Eight to virtually all of those involving Black Panthers. Currently, civil libertarians are questioning the propriety of the prosecution's use of Boyd Douglas, the FBI informant central to the just-concluded Harrisburg Seven trial (see THE NATION). Still more questions have been raised by the ongoing trial of 28 people accused of destroying draft files in Camden, N.J. Four weeks ago, Robert Hardy, a paid FBI informer, suddenly announced that Government...
Exploitation? Black intellectuals are dismayed at the spate of Shaft-like characters about to emerge, feeling that they simply perpetuate for whites the myth of the black superstud. But Parks insists that Shaft-"a ballsy guy, to hell with everybody, he goes out and does his thing"-was an important symbol for the black community. Besides, black film makers are looking at the bright side. They are getting work, and films are getting made...
...many people 1971 was a year of decline. The Band continued to slide downhill with the release of Cahoots. Jethro Tull became self-indulgent with Aqualung. If anyone had ever questioned the death of the San Francisco sound, Grace Slick et-al. confirmed their suspicions with Bark, and a spate of pseudo-solo albums. With the release of Future Games, Fleetwood Mac proved conclusively that it will never make it without Peter Green. And Peter Green with the release of his solo album proved conclusively that he'll never make it without Fleetwood Mac. Ram and Wings helped Paul McCartney...
...result has been a spate of new state laws providing financial aid to parochial schools-among the most comprehensive those of Rhode Island and Pennsylvania. As one Pennsylvania legislator explained: "It costs us $850 to educate a child in the public schools, but we could keep a child in the [Catholic] schools for only $37 a year in state aid." But the new measures-tediously dubbed "parochiaid"-have raised a troublesome question. Do they purchase parochial school survival at the price of violating the First Amendment's command to make "no law respecting an establishment of religion...
...sharply honed minds, today's students are increasingly unable to see any connection between their mnemonic classes and the skills they will need as 20th century adults. Children from eleven to 15 are required to recite entire scenes from the plays of Corneille, Moliere and Racine, plus a spate of La Fontaine's Fables. Even in top classes, pupils must memorize statistics on agricultural, industrial and energy production for long lists of tiny nations. Teachers are pleased to consider themselves "priests of the intellect," as one put it; they are often so remote that they refuse...