Word: dismissing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easy to label Corman a not-too-effective purveyor of hippie culture, then dismiss him. But the fact is, he's pimping for the hippies and their prurient elders. The hippies can look at Corman's motorcyclists as social outcasts who never get a chance, who always have to keep moving. They can honor Hell's Angels as champions of freedom. The elders can point to the Angels' intolerance toward anybody outside the gang, their destructiveness, their eager brutality; they won't live and let live...
...appeal board sided with Rudolph. If the board conducts a hearing on Rudolph's new scheme it will probably uphold his decision. The only other method of defeating the new traffic plan would be to fire Rudolph. The City Manager--not the City Council--has the power to dismiss him, and he is unlikely...
...Strauss stands aloof from such cultist and far fetched applications of structural thought. Yet in their way they are testimonials to the pull he exerts on the imagination. His approach to man has added something to the human equation that is hard to dismiss or forget. Ironically, time may show that this agnostic's principal gift to human understanding is a spiritual one. "I don't believe in God," he says, "but I don't believe in man either. Humanism has failed. It didn't prevent the monstrous acts of our generation. It has lent itself...
...peach pits, or a Shakespeare whose medium is the haiku, Harmonica Virtuoso Larry Adler has found that there are grave drawbacks to being the best of a rare breed. His tongue-twisting technique and feathery phrasing have dazzled concert audiences for more than a quarter-century; but purists still dismiss his performances of classical music as gimmickry, akin to playing horn concertos on a length of garden hose. Now and then, such composers as Ralph Vaughan Williams and Darius Milhaud have written pieces for him, but the repertory for harmonica remains woefully thin; most of Adler's concert selections...
...night of the club Moulin Rouge, Nini (Francoise Arnoul) the star dancer refuses to perform when she sees the owner, Danglar (Jean Gabin) being unfaithful with the star singer. Ordered from her locked dressing room by her mother, she states that she will only dance if Danglar promises to dismiss his other mistresses. Danglar, pinned to the wall, stammers what we had suspected all along: Nini could never keep him tied down; his life is the theatre and he loves only what he creates, while he is creating it. "You!" he says, pointing to Nini, and "You!" to Lola (Maria...