Word: though
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michael Egan, a roofer in Pomona, Calif., fell off a ladder and seriously injured his back. Though he could walk, he was no longer able to work. But Egan thought he was protected: he had taken out an insurance policy that guaranteed him $200 a month for life in the event of a totally disabling injury. He did indeed start getting checks from his insurer, Mutual of Omaha, but after a while a Mutual claims adjuster began harassing him as a fraud and malingerer. In 1971 the company decided that Egan, who had a history of back trouble...
...1970s. Or so one might conclude after surveying the network television schedules that will usher in the next decade. The new series of the 1979-80 season are a mostly flavorless assortment of retreads, spin-offs and ripoffs; there are no innovative programs and few fresh faces in sight. Though the past few years were not much better, they did at least offer such novel phenomena as Soap, Lifeline, Suzanne Somers and Robin Williams. The 1979-80 network lineup is so tame that it even lacks that saving spice of commercial television -triumphantly bad taste...
Despite the fact that the immigrants stirred up antiforeign prejudices, by 1907 the attempt to assimilate them produced the democratic melting pot theory, though years passed before textbooks preached it. National self-confidence, meanwhile, was being further boosted by America's growing role on the global scene. David Saville Muzzey's An American History, the most successful U.S. history text ever, appeared...
Obviously topless but discreetly shaded in the mist, a modern Lady Godiva clad only in blue jeans rides a stallion beside the roiling sea. A bare-chested man jumps on the horse with her and together they ride off, silhouetted in the sunset. Though all three TV networks rejected this sexy commercial for Jordache jeans, it made a debut on three independent New York City stations last week. Similar print ads featuring tame if teasing topless couples wearing only Jordache jeans have blossomed in women's magazines and the Sunday New York Times. The Times at first refused...
...firstly, a charlatan, though rather a brilliant one; secondly, a great charmer; thirdly, frightened of nobody; fourthly, a man with plenty of logic and very few scruples; fifthly, I seem to have no real talent," wrote Sergei Diaghilev to his stepmother in 1895. It was an uncharacteristically harsh, but characteristically penetrating judgment. For two decades, until his death in 1929, Diaghilev's unscrupulous logic and charm dominated the stages of Europe. He founded and directed the Ballets Russes. He was the first to create theatrical spectacles with a mix of dance, painting and music. Under his guidance, Stravinsky...