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Word: crux (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Terrorized by the Nazis, a bumbling Aryan carpenter (Josef Króner) turns his back on an old Jewish shopkeeper (Ida Kaminska) whose fate is the crux of this Oscar-winning tragicomedy from Czechoslovakia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 13, 1966 | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

...part due to the fact that its universities, though often glorious inheritances from the Renaissance, are not very numerous. West Germany has only 48 universities and other institutions of higher learning, Belgium 20 and France 40, while the Soviet Union has 719 and the U.S. 2,080. But the crux of the problem lies in the antiquated European grade and high school structure, which was progressive at the time of Napoleon and is now a positive drag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education Abroad: Falling Short in Europe | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

That is the crux: most homosexuals apparently do not desire a cure. A generation ago, the view that homosexuality should be treated not as a vice but as a disease was considered progressive. Today in many quarters it is considered reactionary. Homophile opinion rejects the notion that homosexuals are sick, and argues that they simply have different tastes. Kinsey had a lot to do with this, for to him all sexual pleasure was equally valid. "The only unnatural sex act," he said, "is that which you cannot perform." His coauthor, Wardell Pomeroy, also argues that homosexuality should be accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE HOMOSEXUAL IN AMERICA | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

...voter lists the candidates in a preferential order (1.2.3...etc.)--this ranking is the crux of the whole system. A voter may list as many candidates as he wishes as long as there is a clear preferential order. The ballots are then distributed into piles according to those who have received the "number one vote" on each blank...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: Repeal of PR May Alter Nature of Cambridge Politics | 10/28/1965 | See Source »

Abruptly, midway through construction, came a threat that the whole project might well turn out like the Emperor's new clothes. In an unprecedented action, Architect Yoshimura resigned. "Palace authorities have persistently ignored my conscience as an artist," he charged. The crux of the matter, it developed, was the old bugaboo of public projects-cost. Yoshimura's idea of simplicity, claimed Ryoichi Takao, head of the Palace Construction Bureau, included too many costly details. Yoshimura, for instance, wanted the expansion joints connecting the buildings covered, and planned to use 45-ft.-long, exposed cypress beams for the ceiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: The Emperor's New Palace | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

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