Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...methodological approach toward understanding black history, literature, music and all aesthetics was the basis for rejecting white educational values, theories and standards." Manning Marable, editor of the Socialist Review and Professor at U. San Francisco, writing about Black Studies, concludes that white aesthetic and political hegemony has been successfully challenged in the face of a white counterassault. The failure Dean Henry Rosovsky refers to is the failure of Harvard to provide any environment for the growth ot this new independent approach...
...U.S.S.R. The Castro regime has been moving away from pure Communism and flirting with supply-and-demand economics. There are new incentive programs for workers and a plan to pay interest on small savings accounts. Castro has also dropped hints in recent months about resuming trade with the U S which had been an overpowering force in the Cuban economy until Washington imposed a total embargo in the early 1960s. Washington's reply: no deal unless Cuba withdraws its troops from Africa...
...Detroit TV News Anchorman Don Lark, then echoed in print by Washington Post Columnist Roger Rosenblatt. She is, as many TV watchers know, a glamorous redhead who appears regularly in commercials for Alberto VO5 hair spray. She tosses her long locks, identifies herself as R-u-ula Lenz-z-zka and speaks of herself as though she were a famous actress. But, as the newscaster asked...
...decade and more ago. One shortcoming was the Keynesian assumption that supply would simply take care of itself once demand was stimulated. So long as inflation stayed low, that is in fact what happened. Even modest increases in consumer demand would bring quick jumps in output. So productive were U .S. plants and factories that they not only filled the needs of the nation's domestic market but also deluged the world with material abundance...
...pageant and the ensuing mix-up seemed a fitting preview of the 22nd Olympiad, displaying, as one visiting U S sportswnter unkindly put it, "the Russian proclivity for excelling at pomp and fouling up circumstance." Spartakiad's first week did produce scores of minor organizational glitches that need to be ironed before next year. But to their credit the Soviets seemed obsessively determined to correct their mistakes and make the most impressive Olympiad yet. Spartakiad features 10,000 Soviet athletes, sifted from nearly 100 million entrants over two years of eliminations and-for the first time-2,500 foreign...