Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Natural Partners." What seemed to concern the ambassador most was Ja pan's attitude toward U.S. efforts to counter Communism in Viet Nam. Said Reischauer: "This is not a war started by us, but by those who believe in world revolution and direct violence. We are being much truer to ideals that the Japanese people profess than you are yourselves. I don't know why Japanese indignation is not turned toward Hanoi. Why is it turned toward...
...this area, Merrill Lynch leads the Wall Street field by miles. By day, its computers direct orders and confirmations to and from trading floors, provide up-to-the-second quotations on 490 over-the-counter stocks and computerized estimates on the value of 2,600 others. By pressing a few buttons on a desk console, a salesman anywhere in the U.S., within five minutes can get back a computerized analysis of the prospects of almost any stock. At night, while human employees rest, computers handle the firm's accounting, run off customer statements, prepare monthly reports, figure margins on individual...
...offenders indicate that many potential psychotics may be identifiable and curable while in their teens, and an important segment of the medical profession has not given up hope of finding the cure to psychosis in the chemistry of the brain. While science may never develop a foolproof psychiatric Geiger counter or a cerebral "Pap smear" for spotting every psychotic in advance, there is no doubt that far more can be done within the resources of the Great Society to pare the danger of sudden, irrational murder...
...factories, rural communities, schools, trading undertakings, service trades, and party and government organizations into great and truly revolutionary schools like the liberation army itself." How the army would go about providing the schools has not yet been spelled out. Perhaps the army, with its highly developed political and counter-intelligence services, would provide cadres to swarm across China, carrying the Mao message...
Rosi, then, is doing battle with pretension in Moment of Truth, the pretension which has made the ritual hollow and which allows such men as Miguelia into the bullring only to meet their tragic end. The candor and the earnestness which the director brings to the film perfectly counter-points his basic message. The elemental power which he achieves will very likely make you an aficionado of Francesco Rosi, if not of bullfighting itself...