Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite differences in content. Griffith's dramatic vision agrees intriguingly with Hawthorne's. He uses apparently straight moral romances to express unsettling notions of behavior. Characters embody not simple virtues and vices, but complex obsessions: the marquis of Orphans of the Storm personifies the insanity of decadence as surely as Hawthorne's Chillingworth contains the full perversity of hellish guilt. At the roots of his complex plot construction lie details quite at odds with the pure sentiments to which his characters aspire. His films form an elaborate psychological autobiography through the diverse characters between whom they alternate...
...Vietnam Moratorium Committee, which supports the drive, will provide petitions which donors can sign to express their opposition to the Vietnam...
When President Nixon invited the silent majority to express themselves, says Moser, who teaches Russian, "he got what he wanted-a visible opposition to the Moratorium crowd." But Moser hopes that Nixon may get even more than he sought. "He may have set in motion the forces that will vigorously oppose the culmination of his policies by demanding victory, not peace." Y.A.F. Director Ron Dear claims that Nixon "would not be unhappy to see his options in the war expanded by right-wing pressure-and we aim to please...
...than following a few characters for a long time. Renoir cuts away to some other relationship, breaking up his normal realistic exploration of spaces and events. But dramatically Rules still works as a continuous surface of events-personal events more vital and unpredictable than before. Each character's actions express him, not indirectly in mannerisms which type him, but in direct self-assertions. The rapid succession of strong personalities and events is disturbingly confusing...
...Each one studies a particular new business opportunity or competitive threat and develops a program to deal with it. By the time they are through, says Clark, "they know the company inside out," and are usually enthused about it and ready for major operating responsibility. Meanwhile they save American Express a consultant...