Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Like all textbook populists, Vellucci portrays himself as fighting a slew of institutions. He says, "There's an organized effort by the condominium converters to defeat me." Harvard has been his most popular nemesis. "You go to Harvard on scholarship? You know it's all blood money from the oil companies." He never resists the opportunity to tease Harvard, but with the exception of his somewhat demagogic stop-recombinant-DNA research campaign, he has not frustrated the University on any specific issues such as expansion or increased in-lieu of tax payments...
Kicked out of the California educational system at 65, I was hired by Western Illinois University (half time at my request) to start a remedial English program. The program is now flourishing, and I have just published a textbook (The Least You Should Know About English) that has sold 27,000 copies in its first eight months...
...Estaing has entrusted direction of the economy to a respected but politically inexperienced professor, Raymond Barre, 53, whom he named both Prime Minister and Finance Minister in August 1976. The jovial, rotund Barre, who likes to describe himself as "a square man living in a round body," wrote the textbook used most often in French economics classrooms. Since he moved to his offices at the Hotel Matignon, Barre has applied textbook economics to France's problems. His austere "Plan Barre," announced in September of last year, urged business to limit wage hikes to 6.5% a year...
...page textbook that accompanies the course contains thoughtful assessments of unstated TV-show presumptions and subtle moral issues often ignored in the sex and violence v. censorship debates. In one essay, the Rev. William Fore, communications director of the National Council of Churches, discusses messages directly or subliminally being transmitted to masses of TV viewers. Among them: the good are usually weak; power is good, even if you have to be evil to get it; happiness consists of limitless material acquisition. None of these views are new or wholly inaccurate, but pervasive repetition of materialism and situation ethics, churchmen argue...
Werner Herzog serves as a textbook example of this Teutonic "New Wave." His work demands a special kind of viewer, a sensibility that can accommodate the warped and the damned souls of this world. His 1972 film Aguirre: The Wrath of God suggested Herzog's affinity for dwelling on the sordid side of things; watching a demented Spanish conquistador in search of his El Dorado foam at the mouth for the better part of 90 minutes, one could sense a sublimated sadism at work in the movie...