Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intended also for his wife Esther, it was among the latest of 102 letters that the 82 captured Americans have sent to President Johnson to U.S. Senators and to their own families and sweethearts since their ship was seized off North Korea in January. Having failed at the diplomatic level to extract an apology from the U.S. for the Pueblo's activities, the North Koreans are now playing on the understandable fears of the captive Navymen to launch a propaganda campaign and to try to force the U.S. into some sort of an admission of wrongdoing...
...multifaceted Flint program as a pioneering effort designed to be copied by other cities. Some 70,000 educators have already come to Flint to inspect its schools firsthand, and more than 100 other communities have started versions of the Flint program. The University of Michigan even offers an M.A.-level course on the program at its Mott-built Flint branch. The 54 "interns" now in the year-long course get a minimum $5,000 stipend from the foundation...
...after a two-week shutdown aimed at stifling the gold-buying stampede that threatened the dollar. Now the question was whether the free-market price of the metal, no longer supported by the disbanded seven-nation gold pool, would climb so far above its $35-per-oz. official monetary level as to rekindle speculative frenzies...
...measure would limit imported woolen and man-made textiles to 8.6% of domestic consumption, a level well below the 10.1% of the market that such foreign products snared last year. The Senate came within a single vote (38-37) of adding a quota on dairy imports to the same tax bill. House negotiators may well resist heavy pressure to agree to the textile quota in the Sen ate-House conference on the final form of the bill. Still, the rising strength of protectionist sentiment in Congress has brought serious threats of retaliation from a dozen countries...
Bergman does not mean his story to be taken solely on the literal level. Von Sydow is also the Creative Artist beset by the bourgeoisie; the island is a metaphor of man's tragic isolation from :he mainland of humanity. Though he has glaring faults as a scenarist, Director Bergman is supreme in handling us troupe; the actors, like Sven Nykvist's phosphorescent photography can ender reality and surreality without missing a heartbeat. Von Sydow is gothically brilliant as the madman; Ullman's ragedienne reinforces her position-already secured by Persona-as one of Scandmavia...