Word: dissentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France's brightest young directors: "American movies are for me the very first in the world. The reason? Because in them one never feels what really kills a movie-the contempt of those who make them for the public and for their art." Jean Cocteau enters a dissent: "Hollywood is a royal house exhausted by family marriages...
...Administration to individual departments on appointment procedures, the generally accepted position is that stated in the 1938 Committee of Eight Report. The report says in part that while the Administration agrees "ordinarily" with a department's recommendation of an appointee, "there are certain situations where the Administration may well dissent...
Administration dissent may result, the report continues, if a department has lost its "specialized competence," thus needing "new blood," or if a department is "paralyzed by internal dissension" and is incapable of "constructive and unified policy...
While more than half the women felt that the executive wife could well undergo some company appraisal, most drew the line at anything so crass as an interview, favored more informal methods, e.g., dropping in at home. The dissent (45%) to even this moderate approach was surprisingly vehement. Said Mrs. Elizabeth Harvey, wife of the director of industrial relations for General Electric's Automotive Division: "This recent development is abhorrent to any sensible woman who desires to be a homemaker as opposed to a business appendage...
...Radford got-orders to send his F4-U Corsairs on a 1,200-mile round-trip attack on Japan. The fighters, he calculated rapidly, would have only five minutes over the target and would not have enough fuel to return if they tangled with the enemy. He signaled his dissent with a famous line: "Negative-no safety factor," and the task force order was canceled...