Word: thin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mandate--communicated quietly late last Spring to admissions departments on both the undergraduate and graduate levels--was not generated out of thin air. Black applications have declined in the last two years, reducing to 78 the number of black undergraduates and reducing to eight the number of black graduate students...
...drop in black applications didn't decend out of thin air either, according to David L. Evans, associate director of Admissions. Evans charged last week that "less enthusiastic" recruiting by alumni and admissions personnel partially caused last year's decrease in black applications...
Consider this nonsensical scene: A beautiful nervous rich woman who is being blackmailed seeks out a thin junior executive (or so he looks) at a jet-setters' party. "Oh, I'm so glad you're here, Mr. Mason. Now, I don't expect you to understand all this at once, but I--oh, I'm so confused--I..." The man, Monte Markham, seems to agree that he is Perry Mason...
...couple of short dull stretches -- a series of jokes about relevance that don't seem awfully relevant any more, and a brief appearance by Bob's uncle to let Bob know his mother is dying -- and every once in a while the comedy seems not only wry but also thin, as though the play were called not Moonchildren but Charlie Brown Goes to College. But such moments are rare. Surprisingly little of the dialogue, or even the slang, has dated. And the characterizations -- the hostile policemen, the guy who lives downstairs ("I see the cars...
Beefcake Act. If readers can survive Guccione's pretensions, they will find an impressive list of authors: J.P. Donleavy, Joyce Carol Gates, Tom Wicker, plus an interview with Norman Mailer. The fiction by Donleavy and Oates, however, is thin, and the article by Wicker is merely a stale list of proposed political reforms. Mailer, certainly a timely subject for a probing interview in a women's magazine, was questioned ever so gently by an old friend and sometime associate, Buzz Farber. In fact, only eight of the 23 contributors are women. Even a solid advice article...