Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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OPULAR MUSIC serves as the timepiece of our decade, measuring attitudinal changes just as a watch compartmentalizes the day. A gaudy but serviceable Timex wristband adequately registers the influence of dull disco and pathological punk. But shoved into a corner as a well-burnished antique, a grandfather clock represents the dignified sobriety of the protest song. With the re-emergence of topical songwriter Tom Paxton, protest music avoids becoming totally anachronistic. On his latest album, New Songs From the Briarpatch, Paxton proves that the '70s cannot excape untouched by barbed balladry...
...real number to watch this year will be Ed Sheehan. Hobbled by injuries throughout the year, Sheehan has been burning up the track in the pre-season. The man whom coach Bill McCurdy calls the Red Menace, Sheehan can be expected to show marvelous-qualities of endurance in this year's competition...
...week in Worcester, Mass. The sale involved a total of 849 items-the leavings of Bay Staters who had died, moved away or had otherwise not touched their treasures for ten to 15 years. Aside from junk jewelry and silverware, the loot was a curious miscellany: a Mickey Mouse watch, three strips of lace, a cigar cutter, Confederate money, an old carburetor and an autographed program for a 1919 Rachmaninoff concert. Far from proving a love of lucre, the auction results suggest that Americans can be careless about money: the whole lot went for a total...
Several denominations are trying to teach people how to keep watch on TV. The Southern Baptists' Christian Life Commission has mailed "Help for Television Viewers" kits to 35,000 pastors and 15,000 lay leaders. The $1.50 kit includes a checklist so viewers can log incidents of violence, profanity and alcohol and sexual abuse. A more sophisticated project is "Television Awareness Training," a 16-hour course sponsored by the United Methodist Church, American Lutheran Church and Church of the Brethren. T.A.T. has trained more than 100 instructors so far, and they will begin offering classes for church and civic...
...know," Restic said yesterday afternoon while redesigning his offense, "we can feel sorry for ourselves, but I just feel so sorry for Tim. All the time he's put in for two years on the bench. I just hope he can come back and watch and feel involved...