Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dissent-Proof. The plan was to submit the report to the 2,300 conference participants, not for their formal approval-there was to be no voting-but only for discussion by twelve working groups. A dissent-proof plan, it seemed. But not quite. First, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNICK) boycotted the conference. Then the Congress of Racial Equality, grown more militant under new leaders, demanded that the conferees frame their own report. CORE National Director Floyd McKissick wanted a resolution demanding U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam, derided the conference as "rigged" by the Administration...
Claudia gamely portrays a nightclub chorine, sister of a scientific genius who may or may not have been kidnaped by a top-secret U.S. security agency or by a sinister organization linked to "the international black market in brains." As proof of the brain drain, the movie offers more plot. Rock is a society psychologist and boudoir gallant who is afflicted with an obsessional neurosis against long engagements. When he is not carting diamond rings in and out of Tiffany's, he climbs into taxis, trucks and planes and travels, blindfolded, on house calls to a decaying mansion where...
...distribute to his people, how many to plant for the next crop. The computer informs him of the effects. It recently told one inept king: "Your population has decreased to zero. Call the teacher." Both in and out of class, a complex logic-stimulating game called "Wff 'n proof," played with cubes on a board, is becoming a campus...
...made significant contributions to U.S. cultural life. In accepting the honor, Stoky's thoughts characteristically turned to youth. "There is rising a young generation," he said, "with which I am in touch, and they're seeing things in a new way." Then by way of proof, he led his youthful American Symphony Orchestra in a Mozart serenade...
...tantalizing Madonna Lucrezia seems proof against procreation, she is nonetheless a setup for seduction. Espoused by an insufferable clod who wants to get her with child but cannot, she falls prey to a heated young gallant (Philippe Leroy) who merely wants to get her to bed and does. The lover presses his suit with life-or-death urgency, disguising himself as the luckless lout who is supposed to perish by black magic after Lucrezia has downed a potion brewed of mandragola, or mandrake root, and spent the night with him. Once conquered, Lucrezia cherishes...