Word: whose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-10 p.m.). Ronald Ribman's prizewinning drama The Journey of the Fifth Horse stars Dustin Hoffman in his Obie-winning role as a publisher's reader whose life begins to parallel that of a character in a novel he is reading. Repeat...
...deadlocked elections being settled by Congress, Thomas Jefferson called the Electoral College system "the most dangerous blot on our Constitution." No fewer than 500 attempts have been made to reform the procedure, but none has ever got past Congress. Now it appears that electoral reform is an idea whose time has come...
...favors lowering the voting age to 18, his son opposes the change. That kind of talk goes down well in the 27th District. Though registered Democrats enjoy a slight edge over Republicans, voters there customarily prefer conservatives of either party. Van de Kamp, 33, a former Justice Department lawyer whose family founded bakeries and restaurants throughout the state, proved to be almost as rightward-thinking as Goldwater. Both candidates hit hard at campus turmoil and stressed law and order. The result was a contest devoid of issues. With both men rigorously ruling out smear tactics, the question became more...
MACDONALD claimed Wolfe's style was all a sham. He called it "parajournalism--a bastard form, having it both ways, exploiting the factual authority of journalism and the atmospheric license of fiction." He could not accept Wolfe as PR man extraordinary, whose technique is to exaggerate--sometimes even to invent--fact in an effort to get at the truth. And, in certain cases, Wolfe has made notable gaffs--where the New Yorker study demanded the cruel precision of an Evelyn Waugh, Wolfe stuffed in the vitality of a Rabelais. As they have developed, however, Wolfe's essays have taken...
...unrest simply pick up and leave the university where they have been working, trying to find a calmer place. This has happened most dramatically at Berkeley, at Columbia, and recently at Cornell. There are other reasons too, of course, especially in the case of Berkeley. But, generally, faculty members whose work depends on large federal contracts and grants have lost much of their institutional commitment. They lost their commitment to teaching long ago, again as research became the main function of the university...