Analyzed the reigns of 25 long-tenured European absolute monarchs for 238 five-year age periods to determine the relationship between age and achievement in the politico-military domain. Results indicated that age negatively correlated with success in foreign wars and with treaty negotiation, and positively correlated with civil instability at…

Newspeak, the engineered language of George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four," is discussed in the context of Orwell's wider views on language and politics and the need for linguistic intervention as part of the struggle against tyranny, and the related or opposed ideas of some of Orwell's contemporaries and Saussure. Orwell worried…

Teachers are moving into partisan U.S. politics in a big way and with big results: they have played a major role in the election of at least 30 U.S. senators, congressmen and governors, plus dozens more local officials. (Author/JA)

Discusses ways in which American historians have conceptualized recent American history as a series of distinct decades and have used economic and other quantitative data, political movements and personalities, and data lying beyond the realm of political economy as evidence for the quality of life in a given decade. (RM)

Using a Burkeian perspective, the authors focus on the six debates during the 1980 Republican primary debate. (PD)

Describes the employment of surrogate speakers and examines their role in the 1980 presidential contest. Considers the advantages and disadvantages of their use and concludes that surrogates served the important needs of three groups--the candidates for whom they spoke, the audiences they addressed, and the surrogates themselves. (PD)

Political campaigns have been more concerned with public relations than with public policy as a result of television domination. Illustrates how political speeches are dominated by symbols without substance. (CK)

Analysis of election results in a 1979 handicapped facility construction bond referendum in Washington state reveals that editorial support and the proportion of college graduates in the population provide the strongest correlations with voter support. Political variables do not correlate significantly with support for this issue. (Author)

Simplifies an instructional systems model into four components (define, specify, develop, evaluate) and argues that it can be a tool for performance technologists to use in diagnosing the political incidents they confront in their work. (Author/JD)

A stepped-up political awareness among Southern California teachers is reported. (LH)

The slowly gathering interest in political issues among New Hampshire teachers is reported. (LH)