Word: hold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organize farm workers. Ineffective efforts to found agricultural unions date back to the turn of the century. But only in Hawaii, where Harry Bridges' tough longshoremen's union used its muscle to win the first farm-labor contract for sugar-cane workers in 1945, did unionization take hold. Agriculture is outside the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board, which has provided federal ground rules for industrial workers' unions since 1935; on a national level, there is no similar mechanism for farm workers...
...into the U.S. temporarily and usually in groups to add to the existing labor force at times of peak activity. The program, begun during World War II to relieve manpower shortages, was ended-over farmers' protests-in 1964. However, individuals known as "green-carders" (for the permits they hold) can work as aliens...
Stop the Clock. Hailing the French attitude, Italian Foreign Minister Pietro Nenni called for quick approval of any British application. In The Hague, Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns, whose country for the next six months will hold the rotating chairmanship of the EEC's Council of Ministers, said that he would immediately seek from the Six a declaration of intent "to enlarge the Community." "Things are on the move now," Luns reported to the Dutch Cabinet...
Even before any players appear on the Festival stage, the audience is confronted by balance in the form of Ed Wittstein's setting. In upstage center stands an imposing depressed segmental arch suggestive of some oversize fireplace. Its Ionic flanking columns hold up a gabled brick wall, with a set of cyma recta consoles supporting a three-arch window that sheds lambent light through its variegated diamond panes. Some distance to the right and left of this centerpiece are placed smaller diagonal arched doorways. When the garden scenes arrive, a section of brick wall and a bench roll in symmetrically...
Godard's particular fondness for the films of Nicholas Ray indicates a concern for modern settings in which the characters hold an insecure place. As Godard's or Ray's films proceed, their characters discover more and more about their settings, which are colored by their perceptions--yet finally stand as independent entities. The characters, neither controlling nor controlled by their physical setting, have to solve their problems independently--this is no fatalistic cinema--but the meaning of the film is created in the characters' reactions to, and actions within, their setting...