Word: reasserting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...policy committee hopes the reorganization into fewer shops will reassert the School's aim of producing "educational clinicians" skilled in both theoretical and practical approaches to education. "A clinician," Sizer said, "is a master craftsman, but in a setting which is itself in a state of change...
Rossellini in the shadows, Alice-in-Wonderland aghast with mock horror. He follows Louis's lead, loosening his camera to the dervishes of baroque pageantry, treating his subject with an iconic, reverential frontality. Only at the very end does he reassert himself. We see Louis at last in private. Suddenly the film is thrown back on the chaos of its own beginning. We see the spectre of Louis's future in the dying Mazarin. We see that even the Machiavellian Louis cannot escape the clutches of his own deceit. That his philosophy is made feasible only by what it ignores...
...public opinion" in Quebec, whose French-Canadian population might have embraced the separatist creed more warmly than ever had the government wavered in the face of the F.L.Q. challenge; that fear was heightened by the fact that Montreal is holding municipal elections this week. Second, Ottawa wanted to reassert the principle of federalism as strongly as possible. Finally, there was the F.L.Q. itself, which was planning a round of urban mayhem "so terrible," as one high government official said, "that I cannot even tell...
From the beginning, the helpful Kee has rather obviously been the key to Greg's survival. Does Flynn intend to reassert sadly that man seems destined to slay his saviors? Or is he bypassing salvation theology altogether and desperately endorsing an existential wager? "Do you ever think," Greg scrawls at the last, "that this life is madness, that this world is a prison, and that if you gave up hope you would be free...
...embarked on a policy of countering Soviet influence wherever possible. It is fearful of Soviet-American collusion, and even a possible joint attack by the two superpowers. For that reason, it hopes to play off Russia and the U.S. against each other. Chou is also seeking to reassert China's role as a third force and a champion of the lesser powers...