Word: lynchpin
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...film remains remarkably faithful to the book. Towards the end, the movie lapses almost completely into voice-over, which eventually becomes rather irritating. This is, however, no fault of the actors, who are probably the best thing about the film. Vanessa Redgrave is Vanessa Redgrave and, as the lynchpin of the story, holds center stage with her usual poise. There's much to admire about this adaptation--the faithfulness of the script, the sensitive direction, the first-rate acting--but in the end it's just not enough to add up to a successful transference from novel to film...
Hence, the "approaches to knowledge" that became the Gen. Ed.'s heir as the lynchpin of a Harvard education in a post-vocational age continues. The aim remains teaching students not a skill so much as ways of "civilized" living and thinking...
...These people weren't worried about preserving their language--they learned English and learned it fast," he says. "The lynchpin of all their existence was economics. The rest of it was secondary...
...lynchpin of the GSAS recruitment drive, according to Blackman, is personal contact. Assisted by between 30 and 40 minority graduate students, Blackman travels to colleges around the country and holds both group meetings and individual sessions with prospective minority applicants. She says that sending students out on recruiting trips has been effective because they can address their peers' fears about academia as a viable career option...
...Westernism is good. Socialism stinks, These messages of supreme faith come through loud and clear throughout Leaders. Much of Nixon's analysis gets lost in his effort to distill these dual ideas, especially in his discussions of Third World leaders. Here, for instance, "stubborn adherence to socialism" is the lynchpin for his criticisms of people like Nehru or Nasser, his too-brief analyses of these figures are left turgid and unrevealing...