Word: awakening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Possibly the decline in TV viewing will finally awaken network executives to the fact that it is actually possible to underestimate the taste of the American public...
...said. Still, we are uncertain. It seems ungrateful to stay in someone's house after he tells you to leave. Besides, we are afraid of him. So help me, we decide to spend the night in the suite above his garage. We tell ourselves that we wish to avoid awakening him in the morning by stumbling into the pack of dogs, but all we really want is to get out without seeing him again. We sneak back up the stairs to collect our belongings for transfer out to the garage. We pick our way past the dogs sleeping...
...Generis. The incident should awaken consumers to an underappreciated fact of auto-buying life: though manufacturers try hard to tout each car model as unique, autos are actually highly standardized products with many interchangeable parts. Ford and Lincoln cars made by Ford Motor Co. share the same engines, as do Dodge, Plymouth and Chrysler cars made by Chrysler Corp. Other automakers have escaped so far the trouble GM has landed in because their advertising has not given consumers quite as strong an impression that each car is sui generis as GM's ads have...
...colleague of Martin Schor's capsulizes: "The greatest act of humanity that a principal and his teachers can perform is to enable the children to feel competent when they go out in the world." What is puzzling, however, is Hentoff's attitude towards the radical critique. He writes, "To awaken a Lucy to her intelligence may not help quicken the Socialist Coming, unless she turns out to be a latter-day Emma Goldman. But to save Lucy from believing herself dumb is a most valuable achievement all in itself." This prejudice is especially evident in his tone and attitude toward...
...melange, not as a unit but a confused mixture. Leo (Grant Bue), a socially inept intellectual, craves but avoids physical fulfillment which Celeste (Susan Roffer) vainly offers. Meanwhile, Leo's old college roommate Todd (Jeffery Harper), formerly the campus wildcat, can only manage sexual flings. Groping to awaken Todd's emotions, Lynnette (Elizabeth Genovese) merely succeeds in using love to achieve her egoistic ends. The four characters remain estranged from themselves and their partners...