Word: conquere
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Midway through this longest night, O'Rourke decides to conquer nothingness by destroying himself. Deserting his post, he reels off in a grog-soaked bender and chops down a flagpole with an ax. Based on a drama by British Playwright John McGrath, The Bofors-Gun whirls to an ironic, literal climax that leaves the viewer more with the sense of having read a script than experienced a film. But there is nothing flat or literary about Williamson's biting representation of a human being tormented by both God and man, who in the end chooses neither...
...running his family's Kansas City interests (an auto agency, small loan and real-estate operations). Not until 1953, when his stepfather, Jules Stein, founder of MCA, asked Oppenheimer to buy him land and cattle as a tax shelter, did the ex-Marine find a new field to conquer...
...entice them into fighting in the King's army, offering a catalogue of the loot and license the recruits will enjoy: cattle, Maseratis, naked girls, the opportunity to break children's arms and inform on innocents. At last they are persuaded, and go off to conquer the world. It is not long, of course, before the world conquers them. Against photographer Raoul Coutard's haunted landscapes -interrupted by newsreel footage of atrocities and death - they loot and plunder, lifting skirts and wallets, but growing steadily poorer...
...graft onto Christianity. The false assumption that nature exists only to serve man is at the root of an ecological crisis that ranges from the lowly litterbug to the lunacy of nuclear proliferation. At this hour, man's only choice is to live in harmony with nature, not conquer...
...measure does nothing-directly -to conquer prejudice or poverty. Moreover, enforcement may prove forbiddingly difficult since a Negro who is refused housing because of his race must first appeal to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, then file suit in the courts. Yet the psychological effect of the act upon developers, homeowners and Negroes alike will open many doors. For the first time by federal law, a Negro in the U.S. is as entitled as any white-or more accurately, four-fifths as entitled-to buy or rent any house or apartment that he can afford...