Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pleasures of Dying" [Dec. 4] was unbelievably absurd. A morbid comment on human curiosity. What of possible importance can all that scientific research produce? Once you've made the jump, you're gone. Granted, it certainly is a relief to know that Stage 2 is an upper: but by that time, who cares...
...upper echelons of major departments have been decimated: several are gone from the health sector of HEW; only two of the ten top officials survive in the Labor Department; four are out at Agriculture; five have been dismissed at Justice. Only one assistant secretary is likely to remain at Interior. The sacking of longtime Park Service Chief George Hartzog stirred the biggest outcry there. "He has more competence in his little finger than that whole bunch at the White House," growled a staff member of the Senate Interior Committee, which was not consulted on the firings...
...their everyday speech go back at least to the 10th century B.C.; Aramaic was the language of parts of the Old Testament books of Daniel and Ezra, much of the Jerusalem Talmud and of the common people at the time of Christ, when Hebrew was used principally by the upper classes. Maloula, isolated in the hills, held out for centuries against both the Moslem religion and the Arabic tongue. The isolation has now been broken by a nearby superhighway, but the village still evokes the mood of an ancient Christian bastion, as TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott discovered last week...
...Crimson regrets printing several errors of fact in a December 16 article about Alexander Marshack's research into the origins of human communications. Cro-Magnon man is a member of Homo sapiens sapiens, and not a different species. The Upper Paleolithic era dates from 35,000 to 10,000 B.C., and not from 10,000 to 8000 B.C. as reported. The Achevlian rib engravings are not exactly the same kind as those done in the Upper Paleolithic, but are made in the same way over a period of time...
...from Yorkshire, where Diana was born 34 years ago. She spent her first eight years in India, where her father was a civil engineer. At 17, after an English boarding-school education, she entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. For two years she studied the R.A.D.A. way-the upper-class voice, the elegant movements. "It was too rarefied," she says. "It had nothing to do with real life. As a matter of fact, I very nearly got thrown out of R.A.D.A. because I was having a dose of real life on the outside." Did that mean...