Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what end? To entertain, of course, but to do more than that. By junking the cages and building vast biological gardens, the zoos provide a decent, delightful place for animals and people to meet and, with luck, fall in love. Once that bond is made, the visitors discover there is a larger mission at hand, a crusade to join. Between the birth of Christ and the Pilgrims' landing, perhaps several species a year became extinct. By the 1990s the extinction rate may reach several species an hour, around the clock. American zoos are leading the battle to stop that clock...
Hollywood's challenge is to entertain as it informs. This fall TBS will introduce children to the cartoon villain Dr. Carbon on Captain Planet. Producer Paul Witt (Golden Girls) is developing a three-hour all-star "practical guide to saving the planet"; Witt hopes all three networks will air it simultaneously. In September a medley of pop stars will shoot Yakety Yak, a music video about recycling. Its refrain: "Yakety yak, take it back...
...Permission to entertain women guests will ordinarily be given only between the hours of four and seven p.m. except that on Saturdays and Sundays the hours may begin at noon. On Saturday evenings and evenings before holidays, the hours may be extended to eight p.m. in the Freshman dormitories and to midnight in the Houses...
Parietal rules, which, as the the Radcliffe Redbook of rules described them, were "the Harvard-Radcliffe term used for those hours during which students may entertain students of the opposite sex in their rooms" took effect...
Officially, the purpose of the parietals was moral. As Dean Watson said at the time, "It is not appropriate for a Harvard student to entertain a girl in his own room." Other attitudes that concerned the parietal rules were also morally grounded. David E. Owen, Master of Winthrop House, told The Crimson that "people are concerned about the unusual situation in which unmarried men are entertaining young women in what amounts to their bedrooms. This is not an accepted procedure in the United States or anywhere in the Western world...