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Trollope and his Pallisers were merely the vanguard of a Victorian invasion of the small U.S. screen. This week the Public Broadcasting Service begins a four-part series based on Charles Dickens' Hard Times. Another Dickens novel. Our Mutual Friend, will be presented on PBS next fall, and before the year is out the network plans a serialized biography of the author...
...neither the governor's press secretary nor the public gave the press any assurances that they would not be subject to arrest if they entered the site. One television camera crew covered the events with gas masks hanging in sacks from their shoulders. The Real Paper staff--a former vanguard of the counterculture--appeared less concerned. They arrived in a Winnebago mobile home covered inside with thick pile carpeting and empty Budweiser cans...
...German universities were becoming indoctrination centers for Nazism, many U.S. universities were teaching upper class youth about their own "superior genes." Throughout this period, Harvard frequently played a vanguard role in promoting this ideology...
TERRORISM: FROM ROBESPIERRE TO ARAFAT by ALBERT PARRY 624 pages. Vanguard...
Buried Scandals. The mistakes are more like earthquake faults in the system of kinken (money power) the Liberal Democrats have forged. Formed as an umbrella group running from the nationalist right to the non-Marxist left, the L.D.P. was vanguard and overseer of the dynamic industrial surge that made Japan's the world's third largest economy. While successive L.D.P. governments focused on development, Japan's growing social welfare problems became issues for the opposition. Since 1958, the L.D.P.'s vote has dropped from 57.8% to last week...