Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...balance of nature." The solution, she thinks, lies not in closing off overused parklands but in educating the public to their proper use. With a shoestring budget of $800 and the dedicated efforts of 25 full-time volunteers, her organization has put together slide shows with accompanying texts that contrast spoiled and unspoiled nature. They rent for $2, plus postage and insurance, to a growing audience of garden clubs, schools, Boy Scout groups, Audubon societies and climbing clubs. GOMA also sends out a monthly newsletter plumping for proper woodsmanship, makes members pledge to spread the word personally wherever they...
...Curtain nations are extra dry. Communist Russians last year ordered only 3,596 bottles, and Hungary popped the fewest corks in Europe, with 2,188 bottles. The Congolese were Africa's heartiest drinkers, with 104,976 bottles, Zambians the most austere, with only 1,344. Nowhere was the contrast more marked than in Viet Nam. South Viet Nam, with undoubted American help, drank up 63,242 bottles. North Viet Nam, however, ordered only 872, barely enough for some diplomatic receptions for visiting Frenchmen...
...briskly edited footage of Kennedy's trips abroad. The President's motorcade in Mexico City is barely visible through a blizzard of red, white and blue confetti. In Dublin and Berlin, the running, grasping crowds give massive support to the making of an image. As violent contrast, the movie cuts with maudlin frequency to Kennedy's funeral preparations in Washington. Every sequence is anguishing, relentlessly focused on the ordeal of a benumbed young widow guiding her children through the protocol of official grief...
With the exception of Frances Gitter's performance of Mary, the actors did not play these moments of contrast, or at best glossed over them. Carl Nagin does Edmund as the traditional Sensitive Young Man. His bitterness is searing, but his tenderness is embarrassed and whispered. Daniel Seltzer as James has much the same problem. He vehemently attacks his lines until the effect is dulled the same way listening to a jackhammer for three hours induces deafness. It is only in the play's magnificent last act when Edmund and James are both drunk that Nagin and Seltzer managed...
Friedman said later that whether or not the movie should have been shown to French 183 was up to Johnson's discretion. He pointed out that the film did pertain directly to the course's subject matter. In contrast, he noted that Genet was not even included in the regular Hum 4 reading list...