Word: directing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston, 275,000 people -- the largest crowd ever -- turned out to watch the Annual Veterans Day parade. The chief marshal, Brig, Gen. Costas L. Caragenis, called the reaction to the parade a "direct counter attack to the protests of a small national minority against our position in Vietnam...
...band changed its formation from "sex" to "libido," the announcer would note, "Freud would have remarked that some at the game sublimate their instincts by kicking and throwing a ball, while others direct their energies to other ends." Then the band would race euphorically around the gridiron to form the word "Lolita" and would play "Thank Heaven for Little Girls...
There will be a presidential election next year-by indirect majority vote of Congress rather than direct popular vote. Castello Branco will not be a candidate. All existing political parties must disband and re-form under strict new rules, to eliminate all but the biggest. The government itself will form a "Party of the Revolution" and present a candidate to run for President...
Schooling, of course, is next. The new education act provides mostly for indirect aid channeled through the states, and it may take a while before its effects are fully felt. But a lot of direct aid already exists-notably Government fellowships at the college-graduate level. For instance, graduate students may qualify for further schooling and stipends if they need competence in one of more than 100 languages to equip them to 1) teach in U.S. institutions of higher learning or 2) take a job, whether or not with the Government, which will "contribute significantly to the conduct...
...than she is in her characters, and soon the reader discovers that he is too. Worse still, in order to shift them around, Novelist Spark resorts to a series of involved intrigues and page after page of gentle nattering. For a writer whose prose is generally among the most direct and polished in the business, this must have been a chore. For the reader, it is deadly...