Word: vanguardism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When it comes to outlandish trends and popular revolutions, California often sets the agenda for the rest of the U.S. The 1978 passage of the state's Proposition 13, which slashed property taxes by nearly 60%, sparked a nationwide taxpayer rebellion. Now Californians may be in the vanguard once again. A powerful grass-roots revolt against painfully high car-insurance rates is roiling the state where people live to drive...
...Farrar did have something special: the courage to be in the vanguard of a movement that is transforming the face of American business. Like Farrar, millions of women are setting up their own businesses and pursuing the entrepreneurial pot of gold that used to be mostly a man's dream. While there have always been a few women with the initiative and opportunity to start a company from scratch, they were the exceptions. No longer. At least 3.7 million of the more than 13 million sole proprietorships in America are owned by women, nearly double the 1.9 million such businesses...
...when Frederick Wiseman directed his first documentary, Titicut Follies, a powerful look at life inside a Massachusetts prison for the criminally insane. At that time Follies' cinema-verite style exemplified the vanguard of documentary filmmaking: no interviews, no narration, no overt intrusion of the filmmaker's point of view. Since then, the technique has become something of a TV cliche. Prime-time shows from Hill Street Blues to CBS's 48 Hours have appropriated the hand-held camera and other slice-of-life touches. Even commercial directors have tossed away their tripods: cameras wander about relentlessly, trying to sell "reality...
...would think that Harvard had enough computerization and impersonalization to go around, but now I see The Crimson is leading a vanguard to eliminate one of the last vestiges of a personal touch left in the University. I refer to the absence of a room lottery at Eliot House (March 19). One wonders if it is the lack of a lottery which annoys The Crimson or simply the fact that The Crimson refuses to accept anything Eliot House does in its own fashion...
...editors of The Dartmouth Review were getting testy. The readers were bored, Pat Robertson was running amok in the primaries, and things were looking generally sour for Dartmouth's conservative vanguard. Something had to be done...