Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seeing Kennedy's applications of words like "crisis," "unity," "national interest," and "discipline," one appreciates how void of content so much of the New Frontier's rhetoric is, how open to interpretation dictated by circumstance. National interest would have been served better if the press had explained what was happening in Cuba--and if the government had not been so sure of its support. Kennedy is equating bipartisanship and achieving a united front with the formulation of foreign policy, an equation that did much to make the Eisenhower era such a blandly unroductive one. He does not see the danger...
...judgment and improvisation. A collection of instruments landed on the moon can do only the specific jobs for which it is designed. It can look around with TV eyes, scan the close and forbidding horizon, feel the ground for moonquakes, perhaps examine pinches of moon dust for chemical content. It can do almost anything that its designers want it to do-except the most important thing of all: react intelligently to unexpected situations...
...then, a paparazzo goes on to loftier things-Tazio Secchiaroli has his own agency, employs five photographers. But most are content to bay on the Via Veneto. Displaced Russian Kroscenko would not consider moving his base of operations. "I couldn't live anywhere else but here," he said. "I feel like a king. I make the Via Veneto, and it makes...
Because the new program leaves so little room for biology courses, the Department is engaged in revising its curriculum to offer "as deep and wide a content as possible," said Wald...
Occasionally, a movie is made in which the invisible director is the most important element. Such, happily, is the case with "The 400 Blows." The camera replaces much of the dialogue, elaborating, where words are inadequate, the emotional content of the script. It is this visual characterization that lifts "The 400 Blows" above its fairly familiar story of misunderstood youth and makes it a strikingly beautiful and affecting motion picture...