Word: matter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high-ranking Air Force official said that he had approached the matter informally with the House Armed Services Committee, but that a present there was no need for such a unit. He explained that the Air Force currently has programs at 172 schools other than Harvard, while 100 more have applied for the program...
MOVIES OR BOOKS about youth culture (and a host of other things, for that matter, like politics and social reality) can often be fairly judged by the critics they keep. When Stanley Kauffmann seizes on The Graduate as one of the most significant films ever made, you know something is amiss. Similarly when the press does chorus kicks for James Simon Kunen. Or when Pauline Kael hails Wild in the Streets. Scorecards of who likes what are less important when dealing with art works with little contemporary social content. Time thinks Persona is a masterpiece, but doesn't know...
...charge was a little dance director. Everything he did was by the count?one, two, three, four?and then your line. I was completely embarrassed, and that's when I walked down the street talking to myself. Will Rogers went by and he says, 'Hey, Duke, what's the matter?' And I started to tell him and he says, 'You're working aren't ya? Keep...
...matter. In the province of the Old West, truth is a dude. The good and bad men who belong are necessary fantasies of the national mind. The public pays to see the Wayne western as a native morality play. The greatest good vanquishes the deepest evil and walks into the gaudiest sunset. The difference between Wayne and his audience is that they leave the illusion behind when they exit from the theater. The Duke has always taken it home with...
...commissioners for more than four years, is quite different. He is likely to put off a study of an important question for a month or so until an SEC aide returns from vacation. In making policy, he allows securities-industry leaders to talk themselves out on any pending matter and encourages the four other SEC commissioners to voice divergent opinions at great length, while insisting that decision in the end must be unanimous...