Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alain Resnais is, of course, notorious for exploiting this state of affairs to the limit. Hence the hypnotic effect of his films. His counterpart in literature, Alain Robbe-Grillet, who wrote the screenplay of Resnais' second film, Last Year at Marienbad (1961), speaks for Resnais when he calls his own work "an attempt to construct a space and a time purely mental--that of dreams, for example, or of memory...
Under the new system the Committee will still assign roommate groups to the same House, with a probable limit of six to each group. The applications which freshmen submit will request only a listing of roommates and data pertinent to equal distribution...
...switch allegiances as painlessly as he changes homes or jobs. As a result, church "conversions" in fast-growing areas often amount to nothing more than "ecclesiastical cannibalism" of the already committed. Many churches in today's mobile America are so busy absorbing transfers that they are content to limit their outreach to people with a high motivation for joining-their own Sunday-school graduates, or suburban couples with children. Of suburban Washington families whose houses cost $22,000 or more, at least 65% belong to a church, compared with 3% of those who live immured in apartments and "peep...
...Paris Club then sat down to decide what mix of gold and currencies will make up the loan. The loan will be made through the International Monetary Fund, the daddy and inspiration of all the clubs. It thus raises Britain's debt to the IMF's maximum limit of $2.4 billion, makes the sterling rescue the biggest bailing-out operation in the IMF's 20-year history...
...glib slogans--"planning for people," "urban renewal without human renewal cannot work"--the problems of poverty and discrimination rest in a stratosphere of generality. The New Boston's designers outline a series of thoroughly acceptable and thoroughly unoriginal goals: "Break down discriminatory barriers that waste talent, inhibit motivation, limit educational achievement..." or "Eliminate adult illiteracy." Very nice. Very necessary. But never do they say how these are to be accomplished...