Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles Chief Thomas Reddin deplores as a moralistic tendency to see things in terms of either-or. Not surprisingly, police tend to be appalled by abnormal behavior and rebellions against authority. Most scorn long hair, and homosexuality horrifies them. With their ingrained respect for work, they take a dim view of people living on welfare. Perhaps most irritating to cops are the white antiwar protesters, most of them collegians who have rejected advantages that policemen themselves lacked and toil to give their own children. "The police consider the beatniks spoiled darlings of society," says Berkeley Economist Margaret Gordon, who also...
...director are the play's most impressive assets. In the central role, Donald Pleasence gives a performance of atomic power and blinding virtuosity; Harold Pinter directorially chills the stage to doom temperature. The very first scene bursts on the playgoer with somber eclat. In an elegant private chapel, dim as a catacomb, a finger of light rests on Pleasence as he kneels rapt in prayer. The Verdi Requiem saturates the air like incense. Suddenly, the stage is ablaze with light, louvers are turning, and the backdrop becomes a penthouse view of Manhattan's skyscrapers...
...days after the two men had been introduced by a mutual friend. They were not nearly ready to discuss the matter with their boards of directors, much less the public. But word soon began seeping out, and both knew that the Securities and Exchange Commission takes a dim view these days of executives who hold back news of pending deals. Thus last week the top men of Xerox Corp. and C.I.T. Financial Corp. announced plans to join their companies in one of the largest corporate mergers in history...
...from clear whether the exchange's elaborate defense mechanisms will persuade the SEC to leave the fixed-commission system intact. At week's end the Justice Department, which takes a dim view of Wall Street's fears of fee competition, notified the SEC that it will soon submit more evidence to buttress its stand. Never before has the SEC faced such pressures for radical surgery on the heart of the securities business. Even if it should finally side with the stock exchanges, the Justice Department could force the issue into the courts with an antitrust suit. That...
Enervated Limbo. Armah's anonymous antihero, referred to as "the man," works in a dim, suffocating traffic-control center, where he tracks the erratic routing of decrepit trains he never sees. The scene suits his mental state, for he lives in the cheerless, enervated limbo of post-revolution letdown. He has learned the dispiriting lesson that freedom from colonialism does not mean freedom from exploitation-particularly when the new masters are black liberals less interested in tipping the revolution than in driving their recently acquired Mercedes. He has learned that the lusts for both blood and money know...