Word: confrontation
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When Dr. Calvin Hastings Plimpton served as president of Amherst College, he brought a healer's touch to the liberal arts school in more ways than one. He used a calm, fatherly approach to the academic and financial problems that confront all college presidents, and when medical needs arose, he would pick up his black bag and make house calls around town. Now, as president of the State University of New York's Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, Plimpton still makes house calls of a kind. Since his arrival in August, he has dropped in on faculty members...
Harvard will confront Seton Hall in the first game of a basketball doubleheader in New York's Madison Square Garden, at 1:30 p.m. on December 4. Tickets...
Throughout the explorations in North America, a frustration and a challenge confront the archaeologist. Unlike their counterparts in Europe and Asia, diggers in America have no early writings to match with physical remains. One of many enigmas never fully elucidated concerns the Mound Builders, who, starting before the birth of Christ, festooned the U.S. Midwest and other regions with great piles of earth, up to hundreds of feet in diameter. Some of the mounds are shaped like animals, so vast in circumference that their forms could not have been fully perceived at ground level by their creators. Mound building...
...Petri, Pontecorvo, Bertolucci have all made films which transform tough social criticism, by passion and human perception, into art. Even Italian hacks, like Montaldo of Sacco and Vanzetti fame, are hacks on a higher plane. If American film is to mature, its maturity will come from those able to confront Kramer's value system and erase its sigma from socially-conscious flimmaking. As Robert Steel said (in New American Review...
Heavy Freight. Yet Wonderland is anything but a catalogue of cheap shocks and thrills. It is in fact the author's most ambitious novel-a long and breathless ghost hunt that attempts to confront that elusive subject, human personality. Where does it reside? More important, is it relatively stable or does it change faster than most people dare to think...