Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Armistead and Schmidt want to start spending their Monday nights at city council, they should begin soon--the crucial vote may be on how the institutional expansion guidelines are to be drawn, and that could take place late next fall, not much time to mend some fences that have fallen into disrepair. "For years everyone on the city council has been abusing Harvard verbally--it will be interesting to see how much was show, and how many will vote to really stick it to them," one city councilor, who asked not to be identified, said. "Even if they do start...
Looking like a skinny William Shatner, Heard's Jack appears as unlikely to start the Beat Generation as the real Kerouac must have. Torn between the genteel sobriety of California suburbia and literary fame as a New York author, Kerouac compromised and died an alcoholic wimp in Florida. We last see him warming in the sun, a camp blanket tossed across his kness as if he were a suburban Ezra Pound who had anticipated his usefulness or outlived his youthfulness and was only good for gardening, pushing down daisies...
...ambitions in the world. The diminution, even the implicit insult of the process, is painful. It prompts some insistent revisions in the creed. Where once equality of opportunity was enough (there seemed an immense river to drink from, why give out numbers?), the continent is sufficiently depleted to start a crisis in political philosophy. Who gets what? And why? Equality of opportunity competes with equality of result. Where once the able simply grazed upon the American economy, questions of access and entitlement cast doubt on the old rules...
...Journal likes to hire reporters when they are young, malleable and ambitious-typically with a liberal arts background and two or three years' experience on a daily newspaper. Although senior reporters at the Journal are well paid (more than $50,000 a year in some cases), young reporters start at $16,000 and early in their careers often earn less than counterparts at other large papers. What is more, the Journal's tightly edited format prevents most reporters from getting on Page One more than once a month or so, and even when they do, bylines are small...
...back in the saddle again-in reruns of his '40s movies and in a documentary titled Gene Autry: An American Hero, shown on a TV station owned by the millionaire star. The California Museum of Science and Industry was marking the 50th anniversary of Autry's start in show business with an exhibit of the old cowpoke's spurs and guns, a guitar, hit records, including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and uniforms from the Autry-owned California Angels. Appearing there in full ten-gallon regalia, Autry, 72, declared, "I really don't deserve...