Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...preoccupation of Jean-luc Godard and other young directors with aimlessness may be a symptom for sociologists to analyze rather than reviewers. It seems clear, though, that Michelle Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), the aimless protagonist of Breatheless, is intriguing because audiences can simultaneously identify him and dismiss him as freak. The film contains little sting or criticism because Godard's semi-comic direction fosters an atmosphere of unreality, almost one of parody. Breathless is thus saved from the pseudo-philosophic qualities that the advertisers and critics have burdened it with. Godard need not and does not comment on Michelle...
Ultimatum. Since February, United Nations forces in the Congo had been armed with a Security Council resolution calling upon Tshombe to dismiss the 500 European officers leading his null army-and actively working toward maintaining Katanga's secession from the central Congo government, even at the cost of civil war. Last month, the Congo's moderate Premier Cyrille Adoula asked the U.N. to enforce the resolution. O'Brien gave Tshombe until Sept. 9 to get rid of the Europeans...
Lane, bored, listens just closely enough to be able to dismiss the whole thing: "I mean I think all those religious experiences have a very obvious psychological background." He is supposedly talking as a realist, but he obviously knows nothing about reality. Franny, on the contrary?weak, overwrought, muttering mysticism ?has about her the luminous common sense and the clear eye for life that mark all the memorable Salinger girls of whatever age, from Phoebe Caulfield on. Eventually Franny faints. When the story first appeared, coed readers, earthy creatures all, ignored Salinger's mysticism and decided that...
...chronicling the great events that convulsed the century-the religious wars, the confrontation of Christianity and rationalist philosophy, the growing defiance of the authority of kings-Durant is painstaking, persuasive and tolerant. Even academic critics no longer dismiss him as a mere popularizer, and he shows once again that, better than any other historian living, he understands how to dis till the flavor of an age from its arts and manners. Like one of his favorite figures, Montaigne, he can "speak to paper as I do to the first person I meet." Indeed, he is often at his most eloquent...
...election by resigning in a huff last January after his coalition Cabinet had exonerated former Defense Minister Pinhas La von of responsibility for a 1954 security scandal (TIME, Nov. 7). After pushing through his seventh resignation from the post of Prime Minister, Ben-Gurion forced his Mapai Party to dismiss Lavon as secretary-general of the powerful Histadrut labor federation. The vendetta promised to provide plenty of campaign fireworks. Instead, there was a closing of Mapai ranks. Ben-Gurion refused to discuss the Lavon case on the hustings. And Lavon himself, instead of campaigning against Ben-Gurion, simply faded from...