Word: classicism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced this week that they will refuse to verify their student status by appearing before federal immigration officials unless President Carter's order requiring such action is proved legal. The students maintain correctly that Carter's action represents a "classic case of bending the legal system to suit the prevailing mood...
...Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine by Jaroslav Pelikan (Univ. of Chicago, 3 vols.). Another Lutheran's modern classic in an old-fashioned field; heavily documented, remarkably readable...
...talk to? Who do you deal with? It's a situation of great instability. You don't know what's going to happen from one moment to the next." One White House aide expressed his anxiety in the jargon of the Pentagon's war gamers: "It's a classic case of gaming versus an irrational opponent. As the irrationality approaches 100%, your ability to game nears zero...
...near New Hope, Ga., in 1977, Flight Attendant Sandy Purl was not among the 70 dead. But she came to wish she had been. Hospitalized and sedated for shock, Purl would leap from her bed each night shouting, "Grab your ankles!" and try to force other patients into the classic precrash body position. A year later, she was still overcome with guilt that she had survived and her passengers died. One recurrent fantasy was that her arms and legs were gone. Says Purl: "I thought maybe if I had no legs or arms, I would be a victim...
...this week, the memory of what used to be called the Great War remains forever embedded in Western consciousness. It is just as well that it is, and fitting too that to mark that grim anniversary CBS will present a new version of Erich Maria Remarque's classic antiwar novel, All Quiet on the Western Front...