Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Interview Format: It can range from a very structured, direct interview in which the interviewer has prepared questions, to an indirect interview in which the interviewer sits back and lets the conversation follow its own course...
...fewer students in each graduating class have taken leaves of absence. Among members of the Class of 1986, only 262 took time off--nearly 150 students fewer than just four years ago. This year, for example, College officials have cited the declining number of leave-takers as a direct cause of the campus housing crunch...
...test accuracy entail the prospect of tens of thousands of false positive results and falsely labelled individuals, screening suffers from another kind of subjectivity. It is politically easiest to propose or implement screening of groups that are already defined and over which the government or an employer already has direct power--as in, for instance, the AIDS testing of ROTC cadets, the drug testing of federal employees or the testing of the employees of an estimated one quarter of the nation's largest private firms. There is no medical reason for such choices, and the allegedly technical screening reveals itself...
...rocket screams from the launcher, then another and another. There is a brief period of waiting, and then the artillery observer radios in: three direct hits within the garrison's defensive perimeter. "Communist -- tika, tika, tika!" (good, good, good!), Sher Mohammed exclaims, striking his open palm with his fist...
...turns out to be less a physical reincarnation than a psychological interpretation, and on that level it engrossingly succeeds. From the start, Williams' art was personal, almost claustrophobic in its griefs and grudges; yet his chosen literary form, the drama, required the constant presence of others to act and direct and design his plays, above all to receive them. Stricklyn gives poignant life to Williams' yearning for the world to look on him, and also for it to look away...