Word: leans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. In Director David Lean's literate, magnificently visualized version of Boris Pasternak's novel, the romance of Zhivago (Omar Sharif) and his Lara (Julie Christie) dominates a vast canvas of war and social upheaval...
Pleasant Living. Far and away the most important operation was White Wing, led by 1st Air Cav Colonel Hal G. Moore, 43, a lean, laconic Kentuckian who earned a battlefield promotion at bloody la Drang last November. In that fight, he held together a single infantry battalion surrounded by three battalions of North Vietnamese regulars. This time he was the aggressor, leading the largest allied force of the war: five infantry battalions, four artillery battalions, plus a team of combat engineers and a troop of aerial reconnaissance men, all riding the helicopters of the most mobile force warfare has ever...
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. In Director David Lean's literate, magnificently visualized version of Boris Pasternak's monumental bestseller, the romance of Zhivago (Omar Sharif) and his Lara (Julie Christie) dominates a vast canvas of war and social upheaval...
...entry into EEC talks. Finally, the Six approved a compromise plan that formalized an agreement to disagree. On the crucial question of whether France could retain its veto over "major" EEC decisions, the plan noted only that "a difference of opinion exists"-implying that the Five would lean over backwards to avoid getting involved in anything all that important. It was nothing like the virtual rewrite of the veto provision in the Treaty of Rome once threatened by Charles de Gaulle. Nevertheless, the other Five noted with relief that France's Foreign Minister Couve de Murville seemed willing...
...scientific discipline that universities are somewhat at odds about how to teach it. Columbia concentrates on a sociological approach. At Rutgers, the emphasis is on relating religion to modern life through courses on contemporary theological trends and the relation of religion to science. Princeton and Western Michigan lean heavily to religious history. Michigan and the University of California at Berkeley have no separate religion departments, but offer a number of courses in different departments. At Michigan, for example, primitive religion is taught in anthropology classes, the background of the Bible in the Near Eastern studies program...