Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easy to scout but tough to play against." That is John Wooden's way of saying that U.C.L.A.'S court tactics are textbook-simple on paper yet devastatingly effective on the court. "With Bill Walton in our lineup, our strategy is simple," Wooden explains. "You go to him until the opposing team stops it. Then you go to others. If you don't go to Walton, it's like using Babe Ruth in your lineup to bunt...
Exact Image. The campaign itself was not exactly a textbook example of democracy in action. While Geisel had a government plane and the government-controlled press at his disposal, Guimaràes was not even given radio or TV time. In the city of Campo Grande, the government-owned electric company cut off the power just when a meeting of Guimaràes' supporters was about to begin. In Niteroi, a city near Rio de Janeiro, perplexed bystanders watched a small band of demonstrators parade through the streets carrying placards calling for an end to censorship and a return...
...acquired an impressive number of professional honors--president of the Maryland Psychiatrists Association, president of the Psychiatric Research Society, nomination to the Surgeon-General's Committee on Television and Violence. Eisenberg says he'd like to spend less time on administration and more doing his own work, especially a textbook on child development. Nevertheless, he's chaired Mass General's psychiatry department since he came to Harvard...
...Americans between 1898 and 1960 had had textbooks on imperialism, Cuba would have been a textbook case. Cuba's main industry was always sugar production, and whoever controls Cuba's sugar has a large measure of control over most Cubans' earnings, the Cuban government--traditionally a government of the educated and well-to-do--and most Cubans' lives. In the 20th century, more and more Cuban sugar mills were bought by Americans, protected by occasional U.S. military intervention, and Cuban owners of small and inefficient mills were forced out of business. Large mill owners--many American--came to have...
Publishers are facing comparable pressures in Brookline, Mass., Detroit, Seattle, Dallas, Atlanta and New York City. Major textbook packagers such as Ginn, Silver Burdett, Houghton Mifflin, Harper & Row and Scott, Foresman have all been singled out. And there are indications that some of them have begun thinking about costly reform projects to eliminate stereotyping, just as they have already expunged, in some cases, editorial sins against blacks...