Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last distracted years of his life. Sade was no more popular with the Comstocks of the Napoleonic era than he had been with the Bourbons' cheka; both regimes jailed him for the same apolitical crimes. But Charenton's enlightened director M. Coulmier encouraged him to write and direct plays for the inmates, and Charenton became a sort of high camp Vauxhall for the Parisian upper crust, who appeared regularly to see the former Marquis' bombastic plays and hysterical associates...
Unhappily, Director Richard Lester (A Hard Day's Night) sells his mirth-right for a mess of footage. Broadway's Forum was a head-spinning comedy of erotic errors in which three men and two women paired off in most of the possible permutations. A direct director could have reduced complexity to clarity; but Director Lester, with his scatty continuity and wham-bam camerantics, has about the same effect on this picture as a dachshund puppy might have on a game of chess...
...Guard movement merged naturally with Mao's purge of undesirable Party members. Mao had been quietly weeding persons out for several months and the Red Guards continued the purge through embarrassment and sometimes direct physical assault on selected men at the lower Party levels. Simultaneously, their patron and hero confronted his last problem -- who was to succeed...
...committee may suggest a direct merger of Arch Sci and Visual Studies under the name of Environmental Studies. To accomplish the merger, the committee would need the sanction of first the CEP and then the full Faculty...
...advantage of the transitional period, Dean Ford said last week, is that it would require only the approval of the CEP, and not a vote of the full Faculty, as would the direct merger of the two fields. The period would "build up sympathy and support for the joint course," he said...