Word: featly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pride in Glenn's feat rose not only from the free world's satisfaction that America had begun moving in space, but from a personal concern that Glenn, the man alone in space, should succeed in his mission. The U.S. and the world had watched him undergo ten frustrating postponements, and could remember the anguish on his haggard face last January as he patiently waited his chance to orbit the globe?or die trying...
...point Lewis notes that "the most effective tools of the anthropologist are sympathy and compassion for the people he studies." Indeed, it was a mean feat to establish a rapport strong enough to permit the frankness and depth of the interviews. At the same time, he claimed that his method avoids "sentimentalization and brutalization. The latter, yes, but when he later states that the poor are "the true heroes of contemporary Mexico, for they are paying the cost of the industrial progress of the nation," he confuses heroes with victims in an unabashedly sentimental fashion. I doubt that any Sanchez...
...standpat alumni. Money began to flow, buildings to rise. Though 80% of Notre Dame's 30,000 alumni have graduated since 1940, and few are rich, they have chipped in at the rate of $700,000 a year, may hit $1,000,000 this year-a considerable feat considering what they also give to parochial schools...
Sitting in the back seat of the Humphrey limousine, he photographed the human details of the campaign. Just as a technical feat, this scene is unique, but it also constitutes a new high in realism and composition. While the senator and his party talk, Leacock scans the Wisconsin countryside through the rainswept windshield. Humphrey speaks glowingly about the state's rich land, but the camera takes in nothing but dreary rocks and gullies...
...along with Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, a major architect of the German "economic miracle." In 1953, after Adenauer asked him to settle up Allied war claims against Germany, Abs succeeded in re-establishing West Germany's international financial credit at the relatively modest cost of $3.3 billion-a feat for which the German government gratefully awarded him its Order of Merit...