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Word: centralized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, the most important change which the committee recommended--creation of a central administrator charged with community affairs--is one that may appear trivial to most observers. Yet the committee was all too right when it wrote...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: The Wilson Report | 1/16/1969 | See Source »

...President's press set-up also reflects the Old Nixon. The idea that a central press man will control all executive press matters mirrors the old Christian Herter operation under Eisenhower. Klein's performance at the first Cabinet press conferences confirmed the worst fears. Time and again Klein interrupted to censor questions and prevented the appointees from making any statements about their plans or policies. Nixon spent most of his campaign trying to avoid any definite stands on issues, and he has continued that policy through the period when he waits for power. Prospects look bleak for the "Open Presidency...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: Nixon's Old Men | 1/14/1969 | See Source »

...with the ultimate failure of Preminger's struggling protagonists. But increasingly, external dramatic pressures play a less important part--the determining factor becoming instead Preminger's own camera treatment of space, his cross-cutting techniques, his ultimate vision. No one seeing Skidoo can deny that the Mafia threat (central to the plot) is secondary in moving the action to the power of Preminger's decision to control personally the behavior of his characters and the structure of his film, disregarding saner methods of storytelling. The abrupt insertion of musical numbers, for example, or the prison escape sequence may strike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ten Best Films of 1968 | 1/14/1969 | See Source »

Forward Observer. This is not new for Snow, who has always evaded the unutterably difficult process of fictional creation, partly by projecting his alter ego into his books as a central character, partly by believing as Wordsworth did that the story of men's lives can be made passionately interesting by the mere assertion that it is so. In The Sleep of Reason, despite Snow's best efforts, Eliot remains a mere observer. For though Eliot never permits himself the indulgence of easy indignation over the crime, he cannily refuses to press thought to its extremes. He ends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Generation On Trial: Generation on Trial | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...Lakoff had his start in teaching here, and his (non-Harvard) dissertation was published here. At Michigan, he will have a central position in a newly reorganized department. We are sorry to lose him, and wish him good fortune.... Karl V. Teeter Chairman, Department of Linguistics

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAKOFF'S LEAVING | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

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