Word: convey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however, who tries to translate broad truism into specific truth. Robert Haack, president of the New York Stock Exchange, discovered the danger last week when he proposed some basic revisions in exchange rules. Though some members supported him, many reacted as if he were ordering tumbrels to convey them to the guillotine. Among the insults flung at him were "panderer," "out of his mind" and "he makes me sick." Bernard Lasker, chairman of the N.Y.S.E. board of governors, observed that the board, not the president, makes policy...
Lady Bird is neither a reporter nor an amateur historian; one does not find insights into air strikes or bombing pauses. What she does convey eloquently are the fears and anxieties of a fiercely devoted wife, especially during the last two bleak years. In 1967 the Johnsons entered what she calls "the Valley of the Black Pig."*She was frankly alarmed by demonstrators: "Through every pore, you sense a sort of animal passion . . . What if I had suddenly broken into a run?" What she did, of course, was assume her "riding in the tumbrel" stance-shoulders square, head high, smile...
...landscape have a definite significance in Rohmer's style. Not until after Trintignant's night with Maud, after he has decided to marry Francoise (whom he hasn't met yet), can he be grouped comfortably with others in a frame. Foggy, wintry outdoors scenes, hazy skylines, and claustrophobic interiors convey the hermetically sealed environment within which he must construct his life. Only after considerable resolution, in the last shot of the film, does Rohmer allow you to see clearly...
...demonstrated at Harvard on Monday, May 11, because fighting imperialism and racism can only succeed if we undertake concrete struggles against such institutions as ROTC and the CFIA and such practices as racist and sexist pay differentials. His sentence came as no surprise. The CRIMSON's article failed to convey the essence of the situation because it did not mention any of these specific instances of Harvard's exercising its power in the courts to accomplish its political ends: the preservation of the status quo for the benefit of the men who run this country...
This course will deal with the specific elements of film and the ways in which they convey meaning to the audience. Sequence-by-sequence, shot-by-shot analysis will be applied to a wide variety of film classics. Among the films to be shown are early Dziga Vertov films, Griffiths' "Birth of a Nation," Chaplin's "Modern Times," the Odessa steps sequence from "Potemkin," Ford's "Stagecoach," Welles' "Citizen Kane," Kubrick's. "Dr. Strangelove," and Fellini's "81/2...