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Word: true (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When, in the 1950s," the letter began, "Robert Hutchins was haled before a congressional committee and asked if it was true that the University of Chicago taught communism, he replied, 'Yes. And in the medical school we teach cancer...

Author: By Cecily Deegan and Stephen R. Latham, S | Title: The B-School vs. The Wall Street Journal | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

DEWITT: Hey, there's no definitive nothing. Nowhere. I like Kubrick, and he's a cold bastard. I dig Antonioni. They use actors, but they're more concerned with exploring the boundaries of the medium. That's cool. Altman's films are sloppy, but so is true art. Your mother...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Many Masks of DeWitt | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

While it is true that Harvard has more potential first-place finishers than any other team in the meet (Bobby Hackett in his events and Ron Raikula in the 200 backstroke are considered practical shoo-ins), Farley seems to underestimate his own team's strength...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: The Easterns: Hackett, Raikula, Cooper and Company Threaten Princeton's Six Year Reign | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...politics are terrible--Hollywood will never really deal with the ultimate horror of what America did to Vietnam. But Michael Cimino concerns himself more with what Vietnam did to America. He follows the lives of five Russian-American steelworker friends in a small Ohio valley town, while remaining largely true to actual events. This ground-level view is contrived at first--for instance, the actors are awkward and reckless with their guns, and they talk a little like displaced New Yorkers--but the emotional strength of the story wins the audience. Robert DeNiro carries the movie with the intensity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Man of the Hour, on Some Of the Best Films of the Year | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...night. The idiosyncratic crew of a fledgling radio station in the Midwest struggle to prosper in the competitive and loony radio business. Well-paced and actually funny at times, WKRP benefits enormously from an engaging small cast. But like all situation comedies, the show's writing will provide the true test of whether it can survive. Howard Hesseman, the Martin Mull look-alike who plays D.J. Dr. Johnny Fever, radiates good-natured egomania and could become a real star...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Toobs on the Tube | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

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