Word: presenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...powerful and basic animal urges-at the expense of the ego, even while recognizing the ego as the vital mediator between instinct and environment. Thus he missed, or scanted, some very basic questions. What is a normal-healthy-emotional climate? Cannot human unhappiness be conditioned as much by the present as by the past...
...Exchange Commission, former Idaho Congressman Hamer Budge complained last week that some complex forms of conglomerate financing offer only "an illusion of security." Testifying before a House subcommittee, he counseled investors against being misled by "apparent improvements" in the earnings of aggressive conglomerates. "Those who are engineering the present wave of takeovers," he said, "appear to find short-term profits so tempting that they ignore long-term risks." Later, Robert W. Haack, president of the New York Stock Exchange, told another House subcommittee that he is becoming "increasingly concerned" about the real worth of debt securities that are being offered...
...diversify by buying a going concern than by starting from scratch. But Government antitrust barriers often stand in the way of combinations within a company's own field. They may prevent not only "horizontal" mergers with competitors, but, to a lesser degree, "vertical" mergers with suppliers or customers. The present law, though, generally enables companies to take over other enterprises in different fields?and it is just that loophole through which the new conglomerate organizers are moving...
...Twenty years from now, the film may have value as a historical curiosity. Surely the sight of such frenetically phony stunts as Jimi Hendrix mounting, igniting and finally destroying his electric guitar will seem as quaint as newsreels of the Lindy do today. But Pennebaker ultimately lets down the present as well as posterity by refusing to probe any deeper than the onstage details...
...School and project Zero will present an "Evening of Dance in a Multi Media setting" at 8:30 tonight at the Loeb Drama center. The Ina Hahn Dance Company will be featured...