Word: alerting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Something for everyone here. Camera-conscious film wonks, alert to Cinema History, will notice something new in this use of Cinemascope: it seems uniquely uninfluenced by Hollywood wide-screen, model of New Wave Americanophiles like Chabrol and Vadim. Bunuel's vision of provincial France seems rather an extension into modern times of the native Renoir tradition of lighting and composition...
...alert researchers, the ordinary bathroom has long been a fount of fascinating scientific knowledge. Archimedes divined the principle of buoyancy while dunking in his tub. Modern researchers have written learned treatises on the vortex formed by water draining from a sink. Now two physicists have found that a bathroom is the perfect place to study another phenomenon: how splashing water generates atmospheric electricity...
...Assistant English Professor Joseph Kramer is "a hard grader and expects a lot from his students," yet gives him an A rating for his "perceptive and stimulating presentation of Shakespeare." Good teachers often rate student raves. The American University guide calls English Instructor Peter Scott "great, dynamic, interesting, interested, alert and careful when grading, the most valuable and worthy freshman English teacher at A.U." In general, the student judgments tend to be fair. "Students have a marvelous, ironic ability to see through bull," says Vincent Scully...
...area for atomic war to spare Russian and American territory. What we have against this doctrine is that it is specifically conceived as a function of the American geographical situation." The U.S. might get 15 minutes' notice of any missile attack, he added, but for France "the alert will be given by the bombs...
...chairman of the State Committee, Doherty is supposed to avoid criticizing his party or its leaders. But the sting of last year's defeats has left him so bitter that he cannot remain alert. Remembering the ruinous interparty squabbling of the past, such as last year's Bellotti-Peabody fiasco, he blames the Democrats' failures on their lack of party discipline. If Bellotti had run for reelection as lieutenant governor, instead of challenging his own incumbent governor, both would have won impressive victories, according to Doherty...