Word: destroys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AGAIN the moral situation has been stripped down for a struggle between two men. Again their setting, barren and light-filled, re-establishes their fundamental tendency to good even while their link to the material work keeps them from acting virtuously, and drives them to destroy each other. Blind Husbands, Stroheim's first film, shows the consistency and depth of his conception of human existence by creating the same pure and realistic drama...
...healthy so long as it spurns pretensions to evangelicalism, insouciance, and absolute self-sufficiency. It is valuable only so long as it maintains both critical perspicacity and sensitivity to the deeper claims of humanity. Radical innovations should follow from personal expressive needs, and not from an hysterical desire to destroy the past. This is another way of saying that we can preserve, much less refine our sensibilities only so long as we are in dynamic possession of them. We lose something every time Nixon makes a speech, or a Vietnamese hamlet is secured, or a superhighway inaugurated, a tinderbox subdivision...
...would then be defending with too little, too late," said Dr. John S. Foster Jr., assistant defense secretary for research and development. He contended that the Soviet Union's new SS9 missiles, now under development, could destroy all but 50 of the 1000 U.s. Minutemen missiles in the 1970's if the missiles were left undefended...
...Common Market countries. A policy combining protection and unrealistic price supports without production quotas has yielded a surfeit of foodstuffs. Excess sugar stocks have swollen to 1,000,000 tons and are expected to grow by more than 300,000 tons annually. In Italy, landowners have been forced to destroy crops of fruit and vegetables, and officials at the Ministry of Agriculture are fretting over what to do with 150,000 tons of ripening surplus oranges, more than 10% of the annual harvest...
...illusion after illusion is stripped away during the play's second act, Crowley manages to destroy virtually all popular conceptions of the homosexual personality and existence. If we cannot identify with the play's world of boundless sorrow and lacerating wit, we cannot turn our backs either. As one character say to Alan, "It's like watching an accident on the highway. You can't look at it and you can't look away...