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Word: eminentance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Focal Point. None of these problems invalidates the French theory. Film has all but replaced the novel as the chief topic of cultural talk on the campus and at many cocktail parties. Audiences as well as critics need someone to praise or blame for the total product. Given that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Film Maker as Ascendant Star | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

West Germany has become Europe's pre-eminent economic power, and the Deutsche Mark the world's strongest currency. The country's very strength, however, is now a source of tension and trouble both inside and outside Germany. Twice within seven months, a speculative rush to buy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Tensions of Too Much Success | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

In strictly military terms, Zais' explanation made eminent sense, particularly since U.S. units are still operating under orders, first issued at the time of the bombing halt, to exert "maximum pressure" on their foe-part of the U.S. version of "fight and talk." Nixon, like Lyndon Johnson before him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE BATTLE FOR HAMBURGER HILL | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

Heimert succeeds the late Perry Miller, the pre-eminent scholar in this field. Heimert said he was "not unmindful of the fact that the first man to hold this chair [miller] was the greatest student of American Literature."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heimert Will Be Cabot Professor | 5/28/1969 | See Source »

The Kennedy-Wiesner-Chayes report brought an immediate reply from John Foster Jr., the Pentagon's Director of Defense Research and Engineering. Another response came in the form of a 60-page monograph published by a subcommittee of the conservative American Security Council. The A.S.C. subcommittee included not one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: The Paper War | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

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