Word: intents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer ardor, withers and stales in autumnal tiffs and recriminations, and turns to icy death in a winter of unfeeling. The play is intimate and perceptive, though it lacks dramatic vigor. The language that might have lifted it to poetry is too often absent. Yet the playwright's intent is aspiring and his subject compels attention...
...establishment of middle-class British values on a boat in the jungle must have interested both Agee and Collier as script-writers; the published screenplay in Agee On Film lavishes detail on Cockney inflection and deliberately tortured syntax. Here, Huston's casting defeats the intent: however much Bogart accentuates his buck teeth, he is largely out of place as a Cockney mechanic; his best moments are asides and wisecracks reminiscent of the two Hawks films, The Big Sleep and To Have And Have Not, and he must rely heavily on a stylized comedy technique borrowed wholesale from vintage Cary Grant...
South Carolina's Strom Thurmond added a stiff antiriot clause, seeking a five-year jail term and $10,000 fine for anyone who travels from one state to another with intent to incite a riot. At week's end, the Senate adopted the entire substitute package; a vote on final passage is due this week...
...relevant to a small and simple college from the complex realities of the modern academic world. It is wrong, accordingly, to attribute to repression what, in all fairness, must be blamed on ill-advised interference and the resulting ineptitude. On the assumption that God prefers the latter to wicked intent one is right to ask for charitable judgment. John Kenneth Galbraith Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics
...decide to go, Ceausescu's decision to pull out of last week's meeting left the Kremlin in a quandary. Though it now has no serious opposition to its plans for a top-level meeting, it also has less to gain than ever if it occurs. Once intent on isolating Maoism at a summit meeting, Soviet Marxists now stand in increasing danger of isolating only themselves-from a growing number of third parties that are tired of taking orders from Moscow. Since many national Communist parties fear that Moscow would use a summit to re-establish its faltering...