Word: turning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Losey's film are the same people who buy seats for the Metropolitan Opera when it visits Boston each spring, not the great unwashed "masses" who couldn't care less about opera, who would rather see the latest Airport movie than Don Giovanni--or, better yet, go home and turn on the television. To "Mork and Mindy...
...CLEAR RESULT of these policies is to discourage dissent and erode academic freedom. The B.U. administration argues that persons at other universities should not interfere with its internal problems, but to accept that reasoning is to turn one's back on the extraordinary and indisputable violations of the rights of students and professors...
...course, none of these disadvantages will be easily overcome. Since the satellites in the 1980s will almost certainly have to turn increasingly to OPEC for oil, there will be more inflation and shortages. That is causing considerable worry among the commissars. The trade-off for the deprivation of individual rights was always supposed to be steadily improving economic conditions. That is now proving ephemeral. So disillusionment, discontent and defections to the West are reaching epidemic proportions. If prices continue to soar, the political explosion could be immense...
...notion of coronary spasm dates back at least to the turn of the century. But there was no proof, and spasm remained simply a theory, overshadowed by mounting evidence that atherosclerotic disease was a major cause of cardiac attacks. Then, in 1970, doctors got "the first eyeball look at an episode of coronary spasm." At the University of California in Los Angeles, Cardiologist Albert Kattus and his team were doing a coronary bypass operation on a woman when suddenly one of the vessels began to constrict. As that happened, Kattus recalls, "we could feel that her coronary artery was tough...
...resounded with attacks on testing. Representatives of reform-minded organizations plus a smattering of professors, school administrators and test experts from 28 states gathered at a meeting organized by a cumbersomely titled group ("Project to DEmystify the Established Standardized Tests"). Some of the delegates even grumbled about the national turn toward required competency tests for promotion of elementary and high school students. P.T.A. Representative Ann Kahn said that due to testing, elementary school curriculums are now concentrating on test scores-to the exclusion of basics like good writing. Ralph Nader told the conferees: "Parents and students are seriously concerned about...