Word: connection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Certain themes connect the various chapters of the book. The authors agree that the major factors in the current French transformation were "externally-induced traumas" and the psychological state of the French people themselves. Outside "shocks' such as the depression, the outbreak of war and the defeat of 1940, the occupation and liberation, and finally, France's ambiguous position in the international community since 1944 all helped force the French to adapt to new realities...
...bargemen's forebodings, inland waterways traffic seems sure to grow. The Corps of Engineers is about to spend $1.2 billion to open up a 516-mile stretch of the Arkansas River between the Mississippi and Catoosa, Okla., and is planning to connect the Tennessee and the Warrior-Tombigbee river systems. Mark Twain would be impressed by that one: to cut the connecting channel, the engineers are considering atomic blasting...
...world's record, rolls along at an easier 80 m.p.h. or so from Paris to Lyon. Together with Austria and Switzerland, the six Common Market nations offer what is probably the best overall railroad service in the world: a fleet of all-reserved, streamlined European expresses that connect 90 cities, average 70 m.p.h., have stenographers, stewardesses and Silberputzer to keep the chrome shining. Russia also is following the express trend, recently sent a special eleven-car train speeding 109 m.p.h. in a test between Moscow and Leningrad...
Robert Frost: "When you know Frost's poems you know surprisingly well what the world seemed to one man . . . to have this whole range of being treated with so much humanity and sadness and composure, with such plain truth; to see that a man can still include, connect, and make humanly understandable . . . so much-this is one of the freshest and oldest joys...
Along with the psychological dots that we individuals are supposed to connect, what has Resnais given us? The film not only lacks a plot ("Haven't I met you somewhere before?"--it's a mediocre line at a party), it has no characters. The leading man is reduced to a one-dimensional figure who stares intently at a girl. She scratches her right shoulder with her left hand ten or fifteen times, and turns away from his PIERCING glance...