Word: setting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...long since acquired its own stout band of connoisseurs. By contrast, little attention has been paid to the fine points of enjoying America's own proud indigenous beverage-ubiquitous, multi-flavored, effervescent soda pop. To remedy that omission, California Novelist Earl Shorris (Boots of the Virgin) has set down some obiter dicta in San Francisco's Sunday Examiner & Chronicle. Tongue firmly in cheek, he sounds a clarion call to those who prefer pop to other drinks but feel that it is socially unacceptable. "Drink what you like," he advises. "Don't be discouraged from indulging your personal...
...tragic heroine whose character summed up all the contradictions, frustrations and despairs of life under 30. It was her special gift that nightly she seemed to triumph over her burdens in concerts that were a kind of cathartic theater of the young. Her exuberances, her frenzies, her "highs" set off chain explosions in the audiences. The quart bottle of Southern Comfort that she held aloft onstage was at once a symbol of her load and a way of lightening it. As she emptied the bottle, she grew happier, more radiant, and more freaked out. The spread of the feet grew...
...Bowker found himself in a squeeze. For one thing, community colleges have the image of ranking at the bottom of the academic pecking order and thus tend to set low expectations for both students and teachers. As Bowker saw it, admitting disadvantaged students only to community colleges might have created de facto segregation, further inflamed black grievances against C.U.N.Y. and led to the very disorder that he was determined to avoid. Opening up all campuses seemed the only solution, and Bowker became convinced that if such a program was to work at all, the university would have to gamble...
...subject that fascinates them, and earn a new kind of diploma, a "university degree." As for the problem of teaching C.U.N.Y.'s huge classes, Bowker is undaunted: the swarms of students arrived just as the U.S. produced a nationwide surplus of teachers in many fields. When the university set out to hire 1,000 more teachers last spring, a single ad in the New York Times drew 4,000 responses, many of them from young Ph.D.s avid to help C.U.N.Y. effect social change and get well paid for doing...
...minor discord, NBC has fought back by programming specials with TV's No. 1 draw, Bob Hope, and with "female-oriented" movies (this week Lady L, a Romain Gary romance starring Paul Newman and Sophia Loren). If nothing else, NBC-or CBS-can hope to capture the second set in the 34% of U.S. TV households so equipped...