The Story of Latin and the Romance Languages Review
Mario Pei’s The Story of Latin and the Romance Languages surveys Latin’s lineage to Portuguese Spanish French Italian and Romanian. It highlights geolinguistics and the Moorish invasion as illustrative, but the work largely falls short of its promised miracle while offering readable appendices and a glossary.
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Mario Pei
Paul A. Gaeng
Arper & Row
New York Times
Pei
Sallust
Sartre
Columbia University
Pyrenees
Rhine
Spain
Watergate fallout prompts slump in serious news study says
The duPont-Columbia interim report finds broadcasters leastening commitment to serious news since Nixon's resignation in August 1974. It cites ABC canceling The Reasoner Report and cutting Close-up, CBS scaling back Rather and its investigative unit amid a push toward attention-getting tabloid tactics.
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New York Times
NEW York
Alfred I. Dupont- Columbia University
Nixon
Marvin Barrett
duPont-Columbia Survey
Columbia Journalism Review
ABC
Reasoner
CBS
Dan Rather
Washington
Media Downturn in Prime Time News and Public TV
The piece critiques NBC CBS and PBS for shrinking or failing to expand national news and investigative journalism. It notes NBC cutbacks and the 11 30 p m Weekend slot while CBS plans did not materialize and affiliates resisted. It also mentions PBS funding and NPACT being snubbed in investigative journalism efforts.
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NBC
Barrett
CBS
Public Television
PBS
National Public Affairs Center For Television
NPACT
Local Theater Listings Open With Diverse Film Times
A compiled schedule from multiple venues includes SACO CINEMA Earthquake at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Portland CINEMA I and II showing a mix of classics and new releases. Listings cover FINE ARTS theaters, PARIS CINEMA, STATE theaters, SCREENING ROOM, SOUTH PORTLAND MAINE MALL, and SANFORD CINEMA with varied showtimes for each title.
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Saco Saco
Portland
Paris
South Portland
Maine
Maine Mall
Alice
Winterhawk
Sanford
Curtain time set in Wells for Annie Get Your Gun
Wells Junior-Senior High School will present Annie Get Your Gun on Thursday Friday and Saturday March 25 26 Autographs by prominent people have been a fad since the sixteenth century
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Wells
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Daytime TV Highlights and Evening Movie Lineup
Schedule lists Gary Desrosiers age 11 in a daytime special and a long lineup of children's programs and prime time features. Highlights include The Toothpaste Millionaire, The Partridge Family, The Six Million Dollar Man film, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, and Star Witnesses with NBC CBS and ABC airings through late night news.
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Gary Desrosiers
Jfk
ABC
UP Country
Dick van Dyke
Little House ON the Prairie
Pa Ingalls
China
Tony Orlando
Dawn
Totie Fields
Tanya Tucker
Andy Griffith
Ironside
Baby Jane
Bette Davis
Joan Crawford
NBC News
Michael Cole
G the Entertainer
Cannon
Vice
Frank Cannon
Homicide
America
Beatrix Potter
Ernie Kovacs
Cyd Charisse
Starsky and Hutch
Bumper
Elliot Norton
Groucho
Bill Cosby
Karen Black
CBS
Robert Horton
Luciana Paluzzi
U.S
Perry Mason
SPY
Greater Bostonians
Cesar Romero
Milton Berle
Boston Legacy
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Goodyear
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