Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...older generation were all too willing to ignore. In the Senate, there are Oregon's Mark Hatfield, Illinois' Chuck Percy, Massachusetts' Ed Brooke; in the House, Illinois' Donald Rumsfeld and Texas' George Bush. The statehouses provide the largest contingent, for it is the Governors who most directly confront the nagging problems of urban America. There are New York's Rockefeller, Massachusetts' John Volpe, Pennsylvania's Ray Shafer, Rhode Island's John Chafee, Maryland's Spiro Agnew, Colorado's John Love...
...friend and chief assistant: "He claimed to be a Marxist, and I tried to convert that into Bolivian nationalism." Though he flew off to London at week's end-the Argentines and the Peruvians had refused him a visa-Arguedas professed a willingness to return to Bolivia and "confront the responsibilities inherent in the deed that I committed." Barrientos at first considered his favorite resort in times of stress: a flight into the hinterlands to talk with the Indian campesinos, who provide much of his popular support. But at week's end he settled down to the task...
...they live." The background of his films show an avaricious and innately destructive world of monstrous and banal people. It is, for the most part, only background, and the films are more specifically about complex relationships and interaction of characters. But where Lang's or Hawks's characters will confront their directors' vision of society-gone-wrong head on, Chabrol's retreat a little from it to defensive personal eccentricities. Both Chris (Anthony Perkins) and Paul (Maurice Ronet) are warped in Chabrolian high-style: bored and restless, willful and given to practical jokes. Chris thinks nothing of using his body...
...Stassen, according to friends, is as implacable "as a medium tank." Ponderous and humorless, he travels the country by airliner and rented cars to confront an electorate that does not care. To him, running for President seems to be somewhere between a hobby and a quirk. "He has this blind spot," said a friend, "this assumption that he knows more than anybody...
...students began their own demonstrations and disorders two months ago. Their discontent has focused on Education Minister Tarso Dutra, a weak administrator whom Costa refuses to replace under pressure. Two weeks ago, students shouting "Down with Dictatorship" marched on Dutra's Le Corbusier-designed administration building to "confront" him. Before they got there, two platoons of police cut them off with tear gas and an antiriot hose truck. The students retreated from street corner to street cor ner, waving clubs disguised in rolled-up newspapers and regrouping each time around Palmeira. Catholic-educated Palmeira, the son of a wealthy...