Word: directing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discussion of the matter among the Faculty." As an example of the "extremely difficult and possibly decisive questions" raised by the Cambridge Project, Ptashue cited Section 203 of the recently enacted Military Procurement Bill, which forbids the Defense Department to fund "any research project or study" not having "a direct and apparent relationship to a specific military function...
...LEARNING that The Scarlet Letter, made in 1926 stars Lillian Gish. one begins wondering why it wasn't a project of D.W. Griffith's. The resulting film certainly would have differed radically from the one Victor Seastrom did direct...
...tone and emphasis in Hawthorne and Griffith. He builds a drama of natural behavior in a specific social, rather than ideal, setting. Griffith's abstractions and idealization disappear and with them the need to assault the audience with quick cutting to put across the characters' emotions. A much more direct realization of his material characterizing Seastrom's work. makes this work simply a powerful rendition of a story of thwarted love...
...reduction of federalism, and the return to local initiative. He scored the old welfare program for breaking up families. He stands opposed with many Republicans to the provision of services through the federal government. The government, he holds, is good at collecting revenues but bad at distributing services. Direct cash payments to the poor are more effective than what he calls "the monopoly strategy of services," because the government rarely provides what the poor really need. Since Republicans also prefer the income strategy to the services strategy, Moynihan has fitted surprisingly well in the Nixon hierarchy...
Wilcox and Hausler recommend broadening the principle of "rotating election" to the selection of the members of the Committee on Undergraduate Education, and the direct election of one student in each House and in the freshman class to the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life...