Word: directed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political hassles" over the Nixon demonstration ended when Nixon himself, feeling that he would lose votes in direct proportion to the number of people he talked to, decided first to hold a press conference in a Boston hotel, then to hold a private reception in another hotel, and then finally to cancel the entire Boston trip. He was no fool...
...happen now. The release of secret conversations between Belfast and London has made it evident that the Ulster government has for some time, been unable to control the police department. (Newspaper reporters monitoring the police radio on the Derry Battle Day say that the police charged the Bogside in direct defiance of an order not to do so made by the police superintendent.) Yet the intervention of the London government may just activate the Ulster Unionist extremists. (The Rev. lan Paisley has recently brought back and dedicated to Ulster a ship used in the teens to run guns...
This same friend assured me that we could at least expect something different from Leland Moss, who will direct The Three Sisters. Moss evidently will strip the Chekhov work down to the essentials, freeing the play of such trappings as sets and costumes. So if you want to see The Three Sisters -surely the most frequently performed Chekhov play in this country-the Moss production might be a good thing...
However small the direct effect of Harvard's actions . . . the university, because of its visibility, its symbolic importance, and the standards of conduct to which it is held by its own students and faculty, has special obligation to behave in exemplary ways. . . . We are, and we are judged to be, an institution devoted to humanistic values and thus accountable to higher standards of conduct than those which prevail among most business firms...
...pollution is not the only health hazard in the skies. The nation's overcrowded airways, already clogged by 2,600 commercial and 120,000 private aircraft, pose a more direct threat to life. Last week a single-engine Piper Cherokee, piloted by a plumber on a solo training flight, lopped off the tail section of an Allegheny Airlines DC-9 as the jetliner headed for a landing at Indianapolis' Weir Cook Airport. Eighty-three persons were killed, including the pilot of the private plane. It was the 19th time this year that two planes have collided...