Word: wave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been quoted in TIME as part of the general wave of enthusiasm for sociobiology, but the quotes came from a discussion in which I also criticized and even ridiculed the new subfield. Its thought-provoking notions about behavior include some that are true, few that are novel, many that are trivial, and none that can substitute for the complex, laborious, difficult progress of the rest of behavioral and social science. Why do people always like it easy...
...Carter Administration-and to the Arabs as well. His Likud coalition barely squeaked into power in an upset election, and Begin, a mild-mannered former underground leader who looks all of his 64 years, scarcely seemed like a man of destiny. Yet today Begin is riding a high wave of popularity in Israel. During his Washington visit last month, Begin affably insisted that "everything" was negotiable in the Middle East. Then, as soon as he got back to Jerusalem, he confounded the Carter Administration by legalizing three previously unauthorized Israeli settlements that had been built on the West Bank. More...
...film marks the crest of the "Hitler wave," which began in the early 1970s with a flood of books on the Reichskanzler and his era. Producer Joachim Fest, co-publisher of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and author of Hitler, a massive 1973 biography, drew on film clips of the 1920s, '30s and '40s. Using his book's conclusions as a base, Fest set out to make a movie that would explore how an obscure Austrian postcard artist could win power and put it to such evil purposes. As the newspaper Die Welt noted in its review...
...there were 490 Big Board member firms dealing with the public; at the end of June there were 371. Employment of registered representatives, those commission agents who handle customers' orders, has dropped by more than 13% in the past six years. The merger wave is still rolling: Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc., the Rolls Royce of the industry, has an agreement in principle to merge with the small San Francisco firm of Shuman, Agnew & Co. Inc. in order to get salesmen who know how to deal with small investors. Now that common stocks are no longer a favored investment vehicle...
...tumble effaces on the various screens, can be seen Marilyn Monroe, Doris Day, Peter Lawford, Marlon Brando and John F. Kennedy as President. The gloom of Kennedy's assassination breaks the mood, but not for long, as Ed Sullivan can be seen in 1964 announcing, with a wave of the arm: "Ladies and gentlemen...