Word: conveys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three novels and said they "were shocked." The Rev. Hanson branded the books as part of a "worldwide plot by Satan to teach young people to laugh at God," and resolved forthwith to get them removed from the school curriculum." I oppose their use on the grounds that they convey the idea that everyone lives like it says in the books," he stated ungrammatically, "and that teachers and churches approve that kind of life...
...ancestors and had no true descendants. His method of composing was slapdash and, to would-be performers, sometimes unintelligible. Says Mackerras: "He never really knew his craft. He had an absolutely lackadaisical approach to the details, but a strict and passionate approach to what the music was trying to convey." Susskind suggests a reason for the carelessness: "It's as though Janáček figured his stuff wasn't going to be played anyway, so he might just as well write it the way he wanted to. But truth prevails. You can't keep a work...
...hard to imagine a book more difficult to transpose into quality film. Such scandalous scenes as a female-to-male rape with a leather dildoe may prove too much even for today's censors. When Author Vidal is not trumpeting the beatitudes of bi-sexualism, he is trying to convey another message: ours is a society dangerously worshipful of celluloid (there are no fewer than 95 stars mentioned in his book). Thus the film version of Myra comes full circle; it will be a movie about a book about movies...
...Advisory Committee on Community Affairs implements a major recommendation of the now-defunct Committee on the University and the City, which urged last December that Harvard create a group "to provide a sounding board for evaluating new proposals and a mechanism whereby the various parts of the University can convey their concern" to University officials...
...idea, spent many months recruiting TIME's board, seeking members who represent every school of economic thought, all parts of the country and a wide variety of institutions-banks, universities, corporations, foundations, private consulting firms. We hope that our dialogue with the new board will enable TIME to convey a greater range and depth of opinion to an increasingly better informed readership...