Word: shortest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...journalist (until this year he was a senior editor of TIME). His questions are thoughtful, if overlong, and the literary format works reasonably well. It allows Cavett to describe with amiable condescension his boyhood in Nebraska (his parents were both teachers), and his high school traumas (he was the shortest boy in any assembly). He was also the brightest and most competitive (he was twice a Nebraska state champion in gymnastics, a sport in which his 5 ft. 6 in. height was no handicap...
...people who will take the Radcliffe Publishing Procedures course, one of the summer school's ten special programs, are like that. "This is the shortest grad school in the world," Helen Venn, director of the course, says. "We help people get positions in books or magazines. Publishers look favorably on the course, because so many of them have helped us as faculty. I don't want young people coming here just to get a job; I always say that we're not just an employment agency. But I almost insist that they go out and work immediately afterward...
...celebrate. Among the shows planned for the fall are NBC's series based on Carl Sandburg's biography of Lincoln, and another by the Public Broadcasting System on the Adams family from 1750 to 1900. CBS, however, has decided to go to extremes with the longest-running, shortest commemorative of them all. Beginning on July 4, it will offer a prime-time TV series called Bicentennial Minutes, which will run every night of every week until B-day, July 4, 1976. Each segment is exactly one minute long...
...term investments, where it would help stabilize world finance. Western stocks and bonds, they believe, do not pay enough to be a good hedge against skyrocketing inflation, and real estate holdings could be seized by Western governments. Instead, the Arabs have been putting most of their money into the shortest-term investments possible: U.S. Treasury bills, New York and London bank certificates of deposit, and Eurodollar bank accounts-many of them "call" accounts from which the money may be withdrawn instantly without advance notice. That is a form of recycling that does little good; banks are understandably reluctant to make...
This adaptation of one of Henry James' shortest and most popular works contains, in cameo, a theme that winds through more elaborate novels like The Ambassadors: the ineluctable tension between European and American cultures that leads to corruption. What Peter Bogdanovich's movie is mostly about, however, is flirting...