Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...purely cold-blooded reasons, Washington is unwilling to cozy up to Castro at this point. For one thing, it wants his somewhat tarnished charisma to lose a little more of its luster before he is welcomed back into the family of hemisphere states. For another, it is quite content to see Moscow go on spending $1.5 million a day to prop up Castro's economically troubled regime...
...become a cultured man, Confucius stressed a hierarchical ordering of society in which each accepted his position. Personal satisfaction lay in cultivating the virtues of obedience, filial piety and benevolence toward others: summed up as "the Way." "Having heard the Way in the morning," Confucius taught, "one may die content in the evening...
Part of the March 2 increase involves a rising charge for each piece of second-class mail. But the increase is also based on a complicated formula involving a magazine's ratio of ads to editorial content, its weight and size, and the distance it must travel. Thus no two magazines will be affected in precisely the same way, but all that use the mails are hurting. Says National Review Publisher William Rusher: "Journals of opinion traditionally lose money. The National Review is a journal of opinion, so the postal rates won't eat into our profits-they...
...Commission of Inquiry has asked all students who took English 166, "The Novel Since 1945," last semester to report on whether they knew in advance part of the content of the course's final exam...
...strengthen the impact of the play and increase its accessibility. But reversing the process is more difficult, because some means must be found to compensate for the forfeit of all the film techniques. The Loeb Persona doesn't try to make up for these lost ingredients, and is content to deal only with those bare bones of Bergman's film which did not depend on his camera. The hallmarks of the original Persona are gone without trace--Bergman's loving concentration on the faces of the two woman, his split-screen sequences, his reminders that Persona is a film...