Word: strength
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...repeal the ban. The lawmakers are expected to consider the issue next year, and there will undoubtedly be a lively debate. Phyllis Schlafly, leader of the fight against ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, has declared that "America is entitled to better protection than women's physical strength can give us." The Pentagon responds that it will take no action that weakens the nation's defenses, and General David C. Jones, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is quick to say: "I don't see women in a foxhole in combat right now." There are other...
...perhaps, but who keeps his sense of style along with his white gloves. Allen C. Kennedy's Mack the Knife sounds like a two-bit punk who got lost in Flatbush and somehow ended up in London, 1830. It's not necessarily a wrong-headed interpretation, but it needs strength, consistency, and a sense of Macheath's age--and Kennedy gives it none of these...
...greatest asset is his strength, while Mike's greatest asset is his quickness," Polillio continued. "What I like best about Mike is that he'll be going upfield turning a linebacker inside out, and he'll still have a good feel for where the back is behind...
Many observers are reserving judgement on the Core until Harvard develops specific courses because they realize the strength or weakness of a liberal arts curriculum lies in the individual courses and not in broad guidelines. Choosing to reform courses and not guidelines, a Johns Hopkins Physics professor, Gordon Feldman, is leading an experiment to develop four interdisciplinary courses that students can use in the next two years to fulfill general education requirements...
...documentary, despite Mantell's efforts to the contrary, is not wholly bereft of insights into Woody or chances to view sides of the man not often seen. When Allen says he would rather risk failure by experimenting with comic possibilities less familiar to him instead of "going with my strength, always making hits," but not growing as a performer, one begins to understand what led him to produce a straight movie like The Front and then move on to the Bergmanesque Interiors. And the shots of Allen at home talking casually to the unseen documentarian and playing his clarinet...