Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Americans last year gave some $22 billion in charity, with 86% of that large sum coming from individual donors. Yet no one really knows where all the money went, and Minnesota's Senator Walter Mondale, chairman of the Subcommittee on Children and Youth, has become increasingly alarmed at the operations of unchecked charities. Mondale is not alone. The national office of the Better Business Bureau received 10,000 inquiries and complaints about charities last year, and this year the volume is rising sharply...
...protect Michael L. Blau's worthwhile producation. Eden Lee Murray does a remarkable job of building the character of Margo Channing even where the script is most bare. A star at the peak of her adult career, she is torn by suspicion and self-doubt, the products of fading youth. What emerges is a sensitive, mature woman equipped with an actress's command of gesture and expression. Murray handles her songs and dance routines with poise and vitality, but more important, never loses a grip on the character she has created. Her directorboyfriend (Steven E. Kaplan) also acts and sings...
...ivied walls on the Hudson for the dedication of the Omar N. Bradley Library, which will contain his personal papers. With his uniform razor-creased and his eyes glistening as if they were spit-shined, Bradley told cadets: "Every time I return to West Point I visit my youth, my roots, my dreams. At this stage of my life I'm glad to be anywhere, but today I feel a special kind of fulfillment...
...Whispers, American Graffiti) or success that is merely modest (A Touch of Class). The best-actor and best-actress choices-Jack Lemmon and Glenda Jackson-were also safe and sane. He is a popular local boy; she is a remote great lady winning her second Oscar in three years. Youth and age were equally served by the selections of ten-year-old Tatum O'Neal and 71-year-old John Houseman, sometime producer, as supporting actress and actor of the year...
Surprisingly, it was Douglas who spoke for the majority. Obviously reflecting his conservationist leanings, he found it "reasonable, not arbitrary" to "lay out zones where family values, youth values and the blessings of quiet seclusion and clean air make the area a sanctuary for people." Only Dissenter Thurgood Marshall felt that such zoning transparently discriminates "on the basis of constitutionally protected choices of lifestyle." If the village had really been worried about population density, Marshall pointed out, it could have limited the number of adults in every house, regardless of the presence or lack of familial relationships...