Word: precise
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout the interview. Vernon would act the lion tamer. He would kid about radical criticism of the Center and then smile for agreement. At one point, when I asked about a book entitled United States Manufacturing in Brazil and quoted a passage from a Center Report showing its political bias...
In a majority opinion that read like a precis of Thoreau's Walden, Judge Kenneth Keating mourned "the intrusion of the seemingly endless line of asphalt and concrete into the enclaves which many have sought as surcease from the hustle and bustle of modern-day life." Keating's...
ULYSSES. An honest, mildly sensational and for the most part intelligent precis o James Joyce's masterpiece-although th film suffers from Director Joseph Strick' decision simply to illustrate Joyce's words rather than transform them into images.
ULYSSES. An honest mildy sensational, and for the most part intelligent precis of James Joyce's masterpiece - although the film suffers from Director Joseph Strick's decision simply to illustrate Joyce's words rather than transform them into images.
The centerpiece of this issue is clearly Noam Chomsky's "The Responsibility of Intellectuals," adapted from a talk he gave to the Hillel Foundation here in March. It is fruitless to attempt a sentence-two precis of Chomsky's 15-page argument. I will say only that the world-reknowned...