Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Only when he escaped to the Italian army did he discover the pleasures of literacy, industrialized civilization and social intercourse. In Padre Padrone (English title: My Father, My Master), we see how Ledda overcame his punishing childhood and the cultural heritage of centuries to seize a life of intellectual endeavor. To their credit, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, the brothers who directed the film, do not sentimentalize material that could easily collapse into bathos...
...paper is backed up by the stern might of the law; it can be followed by fines, loss of federal aid, harassment and obloquy. The regulations are impeding and inhibiting Americans in almost all areas of endeavor and transforming the society in ways that nobody can quite foresee. Writing in a new bimonthly magazine, Regulation, published by the conservative American Enterprise Institute in an effort to keep track of federal rulings, Social Critic Irving Kristol argues that many of the zealous regulators have an "ideological animus against the private economic sector. They are inclined to believe that a planned economic...
Holcombe's ideal for the United States was Aristotle's Polity. "He viewed politics as a moral endeavor," Samuel H. Beer, the present Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, said yesterday. "He had a great deal of restrained moral passion...
...many ways, the war in Vietnam marked a turning point in reporters' visions of war. Before Vietnam, as Nora Ephron once wrote, the war correspondent's job was considered "the only classic male endeavor left that provides physical danger and personal risks without public disapproval and the awful truth that for correspondents, war is not hell. It is fun." Reporters arrived in Vietnam expecting--as they had been taught to expect from the war movies they grew up on--adventure, glamor, and excitement. What they found instead was a brutal war, a war that drew no lines between civilian...
...corporation for technology research and development in 1961, but the dramatic rise in narcotics abuse in the mid-'60s caught Humes's attention and prompted him to launch into an independent, unsponsored research program examining alternative detoxification methods for drug addicts. Humes traces his first "breakthrough" in this endeavor to 1967, when he began operating his first detoxification clinic in Rome. Humes claims to have gotten 125 addicts off their habits, most of them heroin users. However, his initial experimental program came to an abrupt halt in 1967 when police closed down his operation while Humes was away from Rome...