Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harold Pinter, is a 1958 play written prior to The Caretaker and The Homecoming. Party lacks the dramatic sophistication of tone, tempo and themes of the two later plays; yet the telltale stigmata are all here-dread, panic, menace, mocking comic absurdity, the evasive unwillingness of people to level with each other. Except for Edward Flanders, the American cast is often blunt and plodding when it should be sardonic, cutting and athletic, but Pinter nevertheless provides prickly excitement and a tantalizing quota of questions without answers...
...down because the school was unaccredited or did not meet the criteria of "demonstrating the imagination and scope that will appeal to TIME's readers." Others faced the problem of conceiving and executing an effective ad. While we received many remarkably fine homemade ads, some widely missed the level of graphics and style likely to please the TIME audience. Rather than disqualify colleges whose ads were inadequate, we enlisted advertising agencies that, on a voluntary basis, professionally recast the colleges' rough copy and graphics for greater impact. Creative services have already been contributed by nearly 35 agencies, some...
...police in the Northeast. More than two-thirds of the annual U.S. $60 million economic-aid package now goes to the impoverished area. U.S. Special Forces train Thai soldiers in counterinsurgency, and a few Americans work directly with troops in the field. While they leave problems at the village level to the Thais, U.S. advisers also help in road building, health and development projects...
...take over a village for a propaganda session that is often climaxed by the execution of a local official. In 1967's first nine months, 216 government officials and supporters were assassinated, more than double the total for the same period in 1966 and equal to the level of Viet Nam in 1959. Because there are not enough men or resources, security against terrorist attack remains a major problem; in one province, only one village out of ten has a permanent guard force...
...group also intends to organize a Spring semester symposium on the war if the level of interest warrants it, Coburn stated...