Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While 20,000 party members sipped beer, munched on páté sandwiches and applauded mightily in the vast Pavilion de Paris last week, France's fiery Communist chief Georges Marchais berated the enemy. No, not the Gaullists, but Socialist Party Leader Francois Mitterrand, Marchais's partner in France's swiftly disintegrating leftist coalition. "Mitterrand has dismissed the case," he declared, referring to the collapse of talks between the parties on revising the common program, the coalition's campaign platform for the March 1978 elections. Shouted Marchais: "The Socialist Party's behavior shows that...
Hartford City, Ind., an accused murderer testified last month that he and a friend were involved in killing four brothers in a trailer camp shortly after viewing a television dramatization of the Manson murders. While some psychologists argue that for the vast majority of viewers TV violence provides a vicarious release of aggression, most leading researchers have found that violence on television tends to reduce a child's inhibitions against behaving aggressively. Studies indicate TV teaches the young that violence often succeeds and that problems can be solved by aggressive behavior. Moreover, kids are likely to copy what they...
...photos, models' posters, documents and every imaginable sort of artifact, from a suprematist teacup by the pioneer Russian abstractionist Kasimir Malevich to a Bauhaus gramophone. The exhibition catalogue is as thick as a brick; one needs persistence, but is richly rewarded. For "Trends of the Twenties" offers a vast and unique panorama of the European avant-garde in its most exacerbated sense of crisis, despair and hope-the years between Sarajevo and the Wall Street crash, the time of the Great War, the Russian Revolution and the Weimar Republic. This was the last period in which the dream...
...most infuriating aspect of the article is the closing sentence. The writers claim that Butterfield's statements are "narrow-minded" since they come from "...a citizen of the country that destroyed vast areas of South Vietnam's once fertile fields." If this wildly faliacious argument is valid, what makes your reporter's perspective any different? M. Plotkin Extension...
...proverbial "straw that broke the camel's back" was Federal District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity's busing order of 1973. From the start the vast majority of white Bostonians, and many blacks as well, were opposed to the plan. Others were ambivalent. Very few were in favor. We all asked the same question...