Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main point of the weekend was to pave the way for next week's hemisphere conference at the Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este, which Johnson plans to attend along with 20 Latin heads of state. At the top of the agenda are talks on joint inter-American programs for developing the basic economies of the nations south of the Rio Grande and on creation of a Latin American common market...
...main objection is that certain teams (like Dartmouth's eleven and Princeton's five) may be flooded with G.U.T. less opponents. Some League officials suggest giving teams the option of declining to schedule half-hearted opposition, but that view shows a lack of understanding for the undeniably valid principles involved...
Librettist Henry Butler stripped O'Neill's six-hour epic to focus exclusively on the psychological currents that seethe beneath the surface of each of the main characters. Boris Aronson's ghostly sets created decadence and onrushing doom. As drama, the opera unfolded with all the shivering tension of one long, gradually building shriek, thanks in part to the almost balletic direction of Director Michael Cacoyannis (Zorba the Greek). But what made Mourning move was the inspired acting of two darkly beautiful sopranos-Marie Collier as the lusting mother, and Evelyn Lear as the revengeful daughter...
...virus had wiped out truffles; Floirat proved that they would reflourish if the oak groves where they grew were thinned and the soil cultivated. Soon to be honored by the Périgourdins for this achievement, Floirat is unmoved by his new distinction. Says he: "Missiles or truffles, the main thing is to go about it scientifically. I wasn't created to lose money...
...main charges that will probably be made against the film is that it is more careful to preserve the glands of the book than it is to sustain its heart. But a bowdlerized Ulysses would be unimaginable. The book, which first came to prominence in the '20s as one of those shocking things published in Paris, grew into a legend, even for people who never read it, when its U.S. publication was sanctioned in 1933 by Judge John M. Woolsey's celebrated decision: "Whilst in many places the effect is emetic, nowhere does it tend...