Word: exertion
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...most self-damaging displays yet staged by those on welfare rolls. With reference to the "filth-encrusted" gymnasium, what is preventing the underprivileged from cleaning up the place? And as for the food stamps being "more trouble than they're worth," most of us have to exert ourselves to some extent to get food for our tables-some of us even have jobs. The biggest mistake the Government could make would be to discontinue the stamps and disburse cash. Haven't we learned by this time that the majority of these people don't have the background...
...classical" is what you say when you know someone is a great film-maker but can't explain why except in literary terms--Hawks being the prime example of a victim of creeping "classicism"). Strictly speaking there are two classical directors, Griffith and Eisenstein, both of whom continue to exert a major influence over all narrative film-making. In one sense all narrative is "classical" in that cutting dependent on continuity of movement is basic montage (two shots put together to imply a nonexistent visual relationship) and consequently follows the teaching of Eisenstein and Griffith. Shooting styles, however, are more...
...meeting with Nixon: "President Nixon appears to be determined to exert more pressure on the Israelis than was perhaps true of previous administrations. He wants peace in the Middle East that is just for all sides, and you cannot get it if you blindly support one nation over the others...
...upon him to meet within the next few months to discuss some sort of limitation on the ABMs. A much more complicated issue is the question of the Soviet attitude toward West Germany, which is the only West European state that has the economic muscle and geographic location to exert a direct influence on the East Bloc...
Thus last week, Engineer Mosher introduced CAM, G.E.'s "Cybernetic Anthropomorphous Machine." Unlike the usual robot, the walking machine has limbs that respond to the actual movements of its human operator's arms and legs. Driven by hydraulic pressure and controlled by servomechanisms, the metal muscles exert far more force than their human counterparts. But they are attached to a sensitive feedback system that gently lets the handler "feel" what the metal limbs are doing...