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The following study analyses the role that the Amfiteatru phenomenon played in the construction of the so-called "generation 80". Everyone agrees that the birth date of this poetical generation was the early spring of 1977, when the literary circle Cenaclul de Luni had its first meeting. But few years before that moment, when most of these young writers were students, this magazine (i.e. Amfiteatru) encouraged them to write their own poetry, deeply different from the poetry of their forerunners. Besides, the periodical was conceived as an intellectual nursery: edited by U.A.S.C.R. (The Union of the Associations of the Communist Students of Romania), Amfiteatru favored the undergraduate authors. Nowadays, it may seem normal, but in the dictatorial regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu, it was a downright opportunity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a study which examined the relationship between birth month, offspring count and reproductive performance in Romanian, Austrian and New Zealand women. The association between a woman's birth month and her own offspring number is also analyzed. Research on the long-term trend and cyclic component of the time series of mean offspring count of women born between January 1920 and December 1955 is also highlighted. Explanatory models for the conflicting results between the Romanian, Austrian and New Zealand studies are mentioned.