Word: gazing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strode into that world from the fruited plains of Velva, N. Dak., where his father, the son of a Norwegian immigrant, worked as a local banker. As a boy, Sevareid would gaze out a window of the Velva schoolhouse at vast, monotonous fields of wheat and dream of the distant cities pictured in his geography book. He escaped: to Minneapolis, where his family fled when drought hit Velva and where he went to the University of Minnesota; to Europe, where Edward R. Murrow hired him in 1939 for CBS's illustrious wartime team; to Washington, where...
...late 20th century's video technology monitored the principals in one of the planet's oldest enmities, as they performed for the world on their biblical home ground. The effect was eerie and complicated. Sometimes it produced a charming bathos, as when, under TV's smiling gaze, former Premier Golda Meir made fond Jewish grandmother's banter with Sadat about his new grandchild. In October 1973, the two had hurled armies at one another across the Sinai...
...could almost be the College of Cardinals, sitting in secrecy to elect a new Pope. There are closed-door sessions around a huge octagonal table, beneath the gaze of portraits of past presidents. The participants-members of the Yale Corporation, Yale University's august board of directors-breathe not a word about their deliberations. There is even an executive secretary who vigilantly collects every scrap of paper after each meeting, carries them home and carefully burns them in his fireplace...
...Harvard. He capitalized on his opportunities here and ended up graduating from law school at the University of Southern California. He could be pushing paper and people at a New York law firm, but instead Cliff paces the floors of his modest office at the BIC, stopping to gaze at the Veterans Hospital outside the window. Quite apart from the bulk of his co-aspirants in the law, Cliff wears his straight brown hair past his shoulders, dons leather around his wrists, exudes Indian brave. Cliff, too, feels that education is top priority for Indians these days, but expressed hope...
Canal Zone. All the reviews indicate that Fred Wizeman's latest documentary may be his most disturbing -- and at a time when many Americans are failing to confront the imperialistic impulses that led us deeper and deeper into Vietnam, his most timely. Under Wizeman's cold, documentary gaze, American "Zonies" who are zealously protecting our "sovereignty" over the canal appear as a pack of super-patriotic crazies -- absurd if they didn't seem all so familiar...