Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...irrational element will continue its present dominance in our society until we take the radical step of beginning formal instruction in the methods of rational thought at the first-grade level...
...Washington the reaction to Proposition 13 speeded the deep change in federal tax policy. For years, tax laws had focused on making the system more equitable by taking away deductions thought to favor the affluent. But at a TIME Tax Conference in September, Democrats Russell Long and Al Ullman, chairmen of the Senate and House tax-writing committees, proclaimed the era of loophole-closing reform to be over. From now on, they asserted, tax laws will be "economically oriented" packages of cuts designed to relieve the ravages of inflation and spur job-creating investment...
...went along. The elements that would form the Muppet style were coming together. Only dialogue was missing, and this appeared in primitive form when they signed to do a series of commercials for Wilkins coffee. In the first of these, a happy character asked a grouchy type what he thought of the coffee. The grouch said he had never tried it. Happy produced a cannon and blasted Grouch. Then he turned his cannon on the audience and asked: "What do you think of Wilkins coffee?" Sounding weary in the recollection, Henson admits, "We did about 160 of those...
...screen Bogart and Bacall caused a chemical reaction rivaled only by that of Tracy and Hepburn. The start was not promising: "He [Howard Hawks] said he thought he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, 'Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart -yucch...
...which the reviewer wrote a column, now regrettably defunct, called "The Good Word," or the New York Review of Books. Sheed's opinions seem right most of the time, but not so invariably right as to be insufferable. Too much Tightness shuts off debate and stifles the thought process. Sheed provides a good mixture of wisdom and nonsense, so that the reader finds himself saying, "Yeah, yeah, right," and then, "Now wait a minute!" He is properly appreciative of Edmund Wilson, sound on Walker Percy and P.O. Wodehouse, and amusing about the mandarins of New York film reviewing...