Word: productive
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Influenced by Training. Acquitting Shacter of the charge, Judge Alexander Harvey II declared that his beliefs were clearly "a product of a faith." Harvey pointed out that Shacter was strongly influenced by his early training in Judaism, and indeed had used such religious words as sacred and holy entity. Thus, said the judge, the ruling was consistent with the opinion in the 1965 U.S. Supreme Court case of U.S. v. Seeger. In that decision, Justice Tom Clark broadly interpreted the test of religious belief. To qualify as a C.O., wrote Clark, a man's convictions must be "sincere...
...first half of the program thrust us into intermission in the wake of a rather dreadful anticlimax, the Suite in B-flat for thirteen winds by Richard Strauss. This childhood product suffers from the uneasy mixture of a strong Brahmsian influence with overly thick scoring in all but the last movement. The work occasionally possesses a deep sable ambience characteristic of Strauss and is permeated with his incomparable horn writing, but the material is for the most part as boring as a bog. Strauss' penchant for opaque writing, as if he feels guilty when someone isn't playing, only redoubles...
...things stand, I guess Ice Station Zebra isn't all that bad. It has the potential for being a good picture, but hanging over it are the ghosts of rewrite, of producer Martin Ransohoff whittling away at anything individual, leaving a gutless synthetic: sure-fire product at the expense of originality. It will make a lot of money...
...argued that exports, which rose from $22 billion in 1963 to $33.5 billion this year, have accounted for a remarkably steady 4% or so of the nation's gross national product. But just keeping lip with the G.N.P. is not getting ahead in the world. Since 1960, the U.S. share of world exports-one of the best measures of the nation's global economic power-has shrunk from more than 25% to around...
...proposals are really a product of the thinking of the board," Gordon L. Brigham, director of the program, said yesterday, explaining that City staff workers and outside consultants had helped to "put the board's ideas into the form of a formal program...