Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...research center. The City of Faith is rumored to be in financial straits, but Roberts will divulge no details. The overall budget of his enterprises reportedly runs to $120 million. Roberts' Sunday half-hour still appears in 192 markets, but the "Prairie Tornado" is showing his age. The spotlight is shifting to a daily talk show inaugurated in 1984 to star Son and Heir Apparent Richard Roberts, 37. Due for partial opening next July is Oral's $14 million Healing Center, which will feature, among other attractions, a three-hour tour of animated films of Bible stories...
...those who feel the council's primary responsibility is to improve campus life and to communicate student view to the administration, last Sunday's sound-off should give encouragement. The conduct and outcome of the election suggests that the council has finally decided to get out from under the spotlight of campus scrutiny. If it's done debating its mission, maybe the council can get on with work...
Offutt's measured, practical campaign statement showed that he knows that the council isn't comfortable in the spotlight--either as the champion of controversial political views, or as a group which can't keep its domestic squabbles in the family. With any luck, he also no knows just how futile it can be to try to stifle debate, something he has been criticized for in the past...
...remains to be seen if the other 87 council politicos have also grown weary of the spotlight. By electing Offutt, the council members showed they've learned that their constituents don't pay for and support a council so that it can sit around and debate lofty issues. We'll know the lessons of the past few weeks were not lost on our representatives if we hear a lot less about the council as we watch the Yard become a more hospitable place for the disabled, get better care at University Health Services and listen to music in Harvard stadium...
...Crimson is feeling the spotlight a little earlier...