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Plans & Policies. Over the years, the U.S. has been an indifferently good neighbor to Latin America, misunderstanding and misunderstood, pledging much but producing little in the way of desperately needed capital investment. But there was a new tone to the U.S. commitments made at Punta del Este-and this tone reflected the convictions and attitudes of both Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Douglas Dillon. As custodian of the world's richest treasury. Dillon presides over the fiscal plans and policies of a nation with a record gross national product of $515 billion; as the fiscal housekeeper...
...curiosity and ambition. In their courses, they "under-achieve," for they seem to lack an interest in (and a respect for) the work. They opt for or fall into careers of academic abandon, and, at their best, make brilliant use of Harvard College. As a group they are widely misunderstood, and often confused with cases of "academic suicide"--a phrase describing students who have rebelled against the system with no idea of what they wanted, and who, consequently, have simply frittered away their college years in aimless (in)activity...
...purpose of discussing prices, yes," answered Vinson. "Mr. Smith is a very intelligent man, but he completely misunderstood." The meeting with Westinghouse, explained Vinson, was on a social "get-acquainted basis, and nothing was said about prices...
...director is the most important element. Such, happily, is the case with "The 400 Blows." The camera replaces much of the dialogue, elaborating, where words are inadequate, the emotional content of the script. It is this visual characterization that lifts "The 400 Blows" above its fairly familiar story of misunderstood youth and makes it a strikingly beautiful and affecting motion picture...
School of Music in Manhattan-grew an attachment that both sometimes feel has been misunderstood. Says Leontyne: "Everyone finds it so amazing that two families should love each other in the middle of Mississippi which is, let's face it, a red-hot state where my ancestors were not so high on the social scale. Well, that hasn't got a cotton-pickin' thing to do with it. There wasn't anything in the world Mrs. Chisholm wouldn't have done for me. But she was my friend first and my benefactress second-whatever...