Word: interplay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complicated and pressing social issues, and since they set great store by their political commitments, the imbalance proved a serious one. It also assured that any future attempt at examining the documentary movement of the thirties in an historical context would be shot through with the problems. Understanding the interplay of politics and culture and of culture and society during the thirties would require a ranging and disciplined historical imagination...
...prerogative to act according to his discretion for the public good, provided he checks it out with the people and the legislature afterward. Through a succession of skirmishes and undeclared wars, and various employments of Executive agreements (which tended to trim congressional treaty-making powers), Schlesinger feels that the interplay between President and Congress remained fairly reasonable for more than 150 years...
Entanglements-across novels and across generations-are deep and haunting. The interplay is both vertical and horizontal in time. With rich intelligence, the author touches, sometimes brilliantly, on his old themes of the East's collision with the West, of rationalism and passion, thought and action...
...Watergate was an interplay of privileged people playing on the needs of Americans," he said. "To protect economic privilege, the Nixon Administration engaged in tricks...
...Brucke. Nolde's sensitivity to his medium was extraordinary, and he controlled the purely formal aspects of his work more successfully than any other member of the group. At the same time, his woodcuts have a directness and an emotional intensity rarely equalled. His haunting Prophet, with its subtle interplay of light and shade, is the high point of the show...