Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet Union Lectures--Michel Tatu of Le Monde will lecture on "Power in the Kremlin from Khrushchev to Kosygin." Emerson Hall...
Marcia Tucci brings a glowing radiance to Irina, the youngest, who is loved by two men she cannot love and who ardently believes in the restorative power of hard work. One can see her vision of the future in her very eyes...
...LESSING, those that society has labelled mad are actually those super-perceptive, rare individuals whose natural telepathic and extrasensory powers have not atrophied. Martha, in her role as a letter-day Mrs. Dalloway peering into the crevice that separates two eras, discovers that she shares certain affinities with Linda. From that point, it is not long before Martha is voluntarily undergoing harrowing experiments in order to determine the limits of her consciousness. As the novel closes, she is stranded off the Scottish coast, England having been decimated by poison gas and radioactivity. She has also become a member...
...City Council has always been the focal point or at least the chief arena of politics in Cambridge, yet it is a body which possesses relatively little power. The City Manager has far more. Under the City's proportional representation system of elections, city councillors get to be city councillors by appealing, each to his own, to small, well defined groups of voters who usually live in one specific area of the City. Given their lack of power, city councillors try to satisfy "their people" in small ways--for example by getting them a traffic light--and by emotion-charged...
...objects on Jannings' security climaxes in a song sequence where Jannings seated in a theater box, is distracted by a ship's nude figurehead and other sexual objects. But his attention is captured by the true embodiment of these themes, namely Dietrich, and as the film proceeds her power in his perceptions transcends all else...