Word: spate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the sentences for many crimes are prescribed by law, judges often have enough leeway to offer a choice between prison and other punishments-with all sorts of strange conditions attached. It is not clear whether or not those conditions are always legal, but defendants faced with a recent spate of such unusual choices have consistently rejected prison...
...going on in sport and make it what it can and should be." His new book, called The Athletic Revolution (Free Press; $3.45), is long on rhetoric and short on solutions, but its compilation of articles, speeches and case histories is nonetheless the most penetrating of the spate of recent books* that question not only the structure but the philosophy of sports...
Thank Warner Berthoff for his letter "Concerning the Events Last Friday." It's the first evidence of clear thinking I've encountered in the spate of hysterical response to an event which people don't even know what to call so they call it Last Friday. I wasn't there, but from various reports I've read it seems to me that what was going down had nothing to do with curtailment of freedom of speech. It was a political rally, and there were more people on one side of the issue shouting louder than the people on the other...
Involvement in the oil industry in particular is growing. Most recent of a spate of aid-investment programs is a private $40 million loan to Indonesia's Petramina for guiding oil tanks and pipelines in Western Java. The late-February loan made by the Japanese companies Mitsui and Marnbeni-lida, is to be repaid in oil exports to Japan...
Stravinsky's death will probably lead to a spate of evaluations of his effect upon the art. Many pages will be used up, many hours will be spent, but the net of it all will be merely to prove that he was the composer of the century, the man who set the tone for composers of his age, and for ages to come...