Word: establish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doses of blood and poetry in this western directed by Sam Peckinpah. Telling a violent yarn about a group of freebooting bandits operating around the Tex-Mex border at the turn of the century, Peckinpah uses both a fine sense of irony and an eye for visual splendor to establish himself as one of the best Hollywood directors...
Quickly, the Communists moved to curb inflation, suppress bandits and warlords, rehabilitate industry and the transportation network, equalize food distribution, establish a tax system and bring the people rudimentary health care. For the first time in anyone's memory, an efficient, honest administration was in charge-though it could also be ruthless and even inhuman in its desire to impose unity on the land. By 1952, Mao had used persuasion and purge to consolidate his power, and China was ready to transform its economy...
...said that the Salesman-like his generic brothers, the Rainmaker and the Politician- is a particularly American phenomenon. To sell his goods, he must sell us belief in their validity. And since we in America have been ever striving to establish "a more perfect union," since our whole system of government pretends to be based on one great burst of philosophizing in the middle of 1787, and since we have no sense of our past history by which to assess our progress, the Salesman has been most successful when pandering to our dreams and illusions. But, now, he's trying...
...Alan Heimert '49, Master of Eliot House and a member of the Committee of Fifteen, will move two resolutions for adoption at tomorrow's meeting. One would formally establish the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, which would be the chief disciplining arm of the Faculty...
...other would establish procedures for disciplining Corporation appointees this school year. If a complaint of a violation were received, the Faculty members of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities would serve as a fact-finding board...