Word: complement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central flaw of Death of the President is that it forces the reader to become preoccupied with the numerous slip-ups in the author's style and manner of writing "history." Manchester meant his volume to complement the visual record of the four bleak days in November, 1963. Yet his shoddy craftsmanship and endless supply of irrelevant detail have dulled the effect with which he wanted to touch us deeply. In the end, the book negates the event...
...after a good start in the first Bach sinfonia, the orchestra began having trouble. Failing to complement a fine oboe solo by Robert Hecker, the strings evidenced poor, high-schoolish intonation in the second and third sinfoniae and in general let the music control them. The sinfoniae were further flawed by a glaring absence of dynamic contrast and formal clarity...
...Idyll's original performance was by a minimum of musicians strung along the stairway of the Wagner villa. In a misguided attempt at authenticity, Hathaway eliminated most of the Bach Society's already small complement of strings. Without security in numbers. the string players were cowed by the infamous intonation problems of this highly chromatic piece...
...complement of consolidating recipient countries is grouping donors. The President proposed that eighty five per cent of American foreign aid be given within a "multilateral" framework. Johnson defines multilateralism in two ways. First, he requires the matching of American grants by other industrial countries. According to the President, America would give India as much wheat as Canada, Australia, and Russia together contributed, up to three million tons. Second, the President weakly insisted that we "redouble our efforts" to finance development schemes through neutral institutions like the World Bank and the African Development Bank...
...away when mastodons loomed large in Braintree and I was a callow Yardling, people at Harvard knew motion pictures from weekend escapism, late-night television, or reading period orgies at the Brattle. Movies killed time and blew your mind. They were a cheap date. True, we had our complement of film societies and encyclopaedic experts. And true, too, there were few among us who wouldn't offer up, if pressed, a definition of the Bogart mystique or a guarded speculation as to what Truffant was really up to. But by and large the motion picture was pretty small beer...