Word: assertions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trial, Janning is depicted as dumb, insensitized brute who will not recognize the tribunal's authority. In contrast, his brilliant young attorney, Oskar Rolfe (Maximilian Schell), is lively, handsome and sympathetic. It requires no great perception to see him as the symbol of young Germany, trying to assert its innocence and restore all it lost in the war. (Abby Mann's novel, of which the film is remarkably true adaptation, describes Rolfe's feelings this way: "Five bloody years to make up for. He had sat in the Nuremberg courtroom for the last year and a half knowing this...
...death, the Russians have often held up his policies as an object lesson to other U.S. Presidents on how to deal with the Soviet Union. And so it was last week. Said Pravda, making the point bluntly: "It would be wise for present-day Western statesmen who assert that coexistence is a trap set by Communists to remember [President Roosevelt's] sage observations...
...Congress). They sense a real challenge to their way of thinking, and do not share the President's conviction that the country is behind him. Rather, they think the country shares their feeling that a thoughtless and improvident Administration is attacking their fundamental tenets. Thus they feel they must assert them all the more strongly...
...Cantilevered Terrace consists of conversation to the extent that a water melon consists of water, but the play's poetic juices run far too purple. The drama is static, but often as electricity is static. None too likable, the characters assert their right to respect as well as humiliation. As a failure, Terrace exerts more magnetic pull on a playgoer than some playwrights' successes...
Although Harvard's mission is now "world-wide," wrote Pusey, "this is not to question Harvard's essential rootage in this nation. . . . While some of our unimaginative, vituperative detractors maintain that because we are 'capitalist' we are therefore inevitably 'imperialist,' I would assert from my recent experience that our sense of 'mission' springs rather from a feeling of responsibility and generous interest in world order; and toward this end, in the development of mutual trust and the encouragement of human liberty and well being. We are seriously devoted to the advance and development of emerging regions of the world...