Word: remit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they're nice to girls: they wouldn't hurt anybody. The bad guys are resentful barbarians, who pick on the good guys for no reason and make stupid jokes ("They look like a bunch of refugees from a gorilla love-in.") Easy Rider's tacked-on message, built to remit all intellectual sins, reminds one in its ludicrousness of Hollywood's concept of the "anti-war" film. Inevitably these films will conclude with a ringing condemnation of war; but that conclusion is undermined by the horrifying argument that has gone before-scene after scene of exhilarating battle sequences. Easy Rider...
...they're nice to girls; they wouldn't hurt anybody. The bad guys are resentful barbarians, who pick on the good guys for no reason and make stupid jokes ("They look like a bunch of refugees from a gorilla love-in.") Easy Rider's tacked-on message, built to remit all intellectual sins, reminds one in its ludicrousness of Hollywood's concept of the "antiwar" film. Inevitably these films will conclude with a ringing condemnation of war; but that conclusion is undermined by the horrifying argument that has gone before--scene after scene of exhilarating battle sequences. Easy Rider...
...murderer's will, they belong to you-on one condition: you must faithfully offer up 500 masses for the salvation of his miserable soul." The peasants turn pale. At 1,000 lire apiece, 500 masses would cost 500,000 lire! His Grace gravely agrees; the peasants ruefully remit. "Pax vobiscum," the bishop murmurs as his big black automobile rumbles off to Rome. On the way, however, the car stops. The bishop, round and lively as a barrel of Val-policella, rolls vigorously out and removes his vestments. Beneath them he is wearing a business suit-and on his face...
Franco has relaxed regulations on foreign capital, now allows outside companies to control Spanish firms and remit their profits and dividends. Such firms as Leyland Motors, John Deere and Parke Davis have come in. Foreigners can now own Spanish stocks, have bought $200 million worth of them...
...added incentive that the game itself has sometimes been known to be profitable and even enjoyable. Yet although it would be silly to permit students to reject the thesis at the moments when they are least likely to make the choice reasonably, the harshness of the game should remit when circumstances show that a particular thesis will of necessity be very unprofitable indeed. All that should be asked is that a student present good reasons for his desertion; and his thesis advisor and Head Tutor may then turn him out to another, greener, pasture of inquiry. In any case, Faculty...