Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...congratulate you on your perceptive and timely Essay "On Death as a Constant Companion" [Nov. 12]. You show that the answer of religion to doubts about death does not satisfy modern man, and that philosophy and science have done no better. I remind you of parapsychology, or psychical research, which attempts the scientific study of phenomena not yet understood by physical principles. Most research done in this field deals with extrasensory perception, but there are also investigators, like me, who are concerned with studies that may throw light on whether or not human personality or some aspect of it survives...
...rate, here style no longer seems a whim, or a self-consciously wielded tool, or a way of glorifying the director's role. Instead it fosters a sense of the film itself, as a medium. Scenes photographed with the camera on its side or shown in negative remind one not of the unseen creator but of the nature of his materials. Godard employs a whole catalogue of cinematic tricks--intertitles before the monologues, subtitles supplementing dialogue, jump cuts, characters whispering their thoughts from off-screen, sudden shattering increases in volume and so on--to make The Married Woman "pure...
...arrests and the new "lodging" statute brought the matter to Radcliffe's attention. "There's been no scandal," one president told an off-campus House. "The college only wants to remind you to be discreet and careful. Radcliffe asumes that its students are responsible our permissive rules prove that. But girls sometimes forget there exist statutes determined by people less liberal than the college administration." The head resident in, one of the co-operative Houses last night speculated at a Cliffie arrested under the "fornication" statute could expect legal aid from the college but would find Radcliffe "anxious to hush...
...Remind me," Dwight Eisenhower once ordered an aide, "never to invite that fellow down here again...
...Angels. Felled by a heart attack in 1948 and forced to eke out a living, Costantini set up a shop, like many of those lining the Piazza San Marco, selling the gaudy souvenirs that today pass for Venetian glass. "I suffered," he says. No one needed to remind him that Murano, an island in the Venetian Lagoon still crowded with furnaces, had once been the capital of the glassmaking world. The problem was to restore art to the craft, and Costantini decided to persuade contemporary artists to supply designs for the glassmakers left on Murano...