Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fully refueled, the troops boarded trucks bound for depots at Kaiserslautern, Mannheim, Pirmasens and Germersheim to pick up their prepositioned hardware-319 M48 medium, 50-ton tanks, 76 howitzers, 429 armored personnel carriers. Stockpiled during the 1961 Berlin crisis, the equipment has been sitting idle ever since. At Kaiserslautern three unbroken columns of tanks, guns and ammunition stretch caterpillar-like for two miles along an abandoned highway. Later, in forested bivouac areas ablaze with the golds and russets of autumn, the troops set up pup tents, took hot showers in tents equipped with gas-powered water heaters, wolfed down mountainous...
...Appeasers is like a biography which discusses its subject as if he were the only man alive. The authors have a great time tracing the movements of the appeasers, but they don't pause to consider the medium through which their subjects move. Von Ribbentrop appears as a soft piece of putty shaped by English hands. One does not hear of his constant efforts to soothe Hitler, his competition with the German ambassador in Moscow, or his fear of admitting defeat in his own policies. All were important in determining the scene upon which Chamberlain played the fool...
Although gale warnings and a full hurricane watch are now in effect from Block Island to Provincetown, the Boston area will not be severely affected by the storm. Winds here may exceed 45 m.p.h. but the medium to heavy rainfall should end by tonight. Skies will be partially clear on Wednesday...
...Thank you for employing and publishing a theater critic who exhibits acute sensitivity to the medium, keen judgment of both general and particular values, and a capacity for genuine enthusiasm. Your Ted Kalem is specific about what he likes and dislikes; consequently, one can learn much from his reviews without having to agree with their evaluations (though I admit to the latter tendency...
Nevertheless, Crisis is an exciting, new form of television journalism. In trying to film each phase of a story and then edit it down to a comprehensive plot, Drew has ingeniously applied the "group journalism" of magazine like Time and Newsweek to a new journalistic medium. One hopes that in the editing of film, Drew will be able to continue to present insights with a minimum of bias and oversimplification...