Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attempt at understanding a different culture, it is vital to consciously suspend one's cultural biases. The arguments and cross-examination of St. Clair, whose previous clients include a disgraced former president, actively violated this standard throughout the trial. St. Clair deliberately and subtly appealed to the prejudices--cultural and racist--of the jury. In his opening statement, St. Clair specified cultural assimilation, especially Indian intermarriage with blacks and whites, as one example of the Indians' failure to comprise a tribe. The ploy was an insidious one--St. Clair skillfully appealed to whatever prejudices the jury may have entertained against...
...think the best way to prepare for exams or recuperate from them is to hear some standard classical works, you're in luck this month. Bach, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven are well represented among the concerts in Cambridge and Boston, and might be the perfect remedy for frayed nerves. On the other hand, WHRB presents sixty consecutive hours of the complete recorded music of Schoenberg and Stravinsky for those whose nerves aren't frayed enough...
Langer was the author of more than a dozen books, and edited the one volume An Encyclopedia of World History, which serves as a standard reference work for many students. Beginning in World War II, he served in several positions with the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of State, and in 1945 President Truman awarded him the Medal for Merit for his intelligence work during the war. Even more commendable is the fact that during his years of government service Langer was a strong advocate of the right of historians and the public to gain access to classified government...
...white cane." In his newest film, The Gauntlet, Eastwood races by car, motorcycle, freight train and bus to bring a witness against the Mob to the trial on time. But only at the wheel, Witteman found, does the otherwise quiet and domestic Eastwood, who does not even bother with standard Hollywood equipment such as a pressagent, live up to his screen image. After a stint in the passenger's seat of Eastwood's Ferrari Boxer, tooling down those twisty Monterey Peninsula roads, Witteman admits that he was "scared to death." Most Eastern critics tend to dismiss the macho...
...office where James T. Mclntyre Jr. has been putting together the federal budget for fiscal 1979 hangs the toothy official portrait of Jimmy Carter. Standard decoration for thousands of Washington offices-but the budget boss's picture is different; on it the President has written: "To my good and early friend Jim Mclntyre." That inscription tells the secret of Mclntyre's success. A small-town Georgian like his boss and so many other now prominent Washingtonians, Mclntyre met Carter in 1970, when the President was a defeated Georgia politician trying again for state office. Last week Mclntyre...