Word: renders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indirection and by extraordinarily blunt talk to overturn Defense Department policy and win for the Army a major place in the missile world. Displayed around the hotel ballroom were Army missiles and parts of missiles; at the entrance a placard blazoned the Army's basic doctrinal claim to render the Air Force obsolete. "In the missile era," read the placard, quoting the Army's Lieut. General James M. Gavin, "the man who controls the land will control the space above...
...life itself, in the absence of good will. The dilemma of the state is that this condition, as a moral condition, cannot be legally administered." The power of the state must come from a law higher than itself. "It is clearly not the destiny of the secular state to render the functions of a religious community superfluous. On the contrary, with the advance of a technical civilization, a church in our broad sense . . . instead of tending to wither away, becomes increasingly necessary...
...fundamental precept seems unassailable. As he says at length and somewhat abstrusely, the novel, especially the modern novel, characteristically deals with time and the complexities of inner motivation; the film, on the other hand, basically unequipped to render these effectively, finds its forte in rendering motion and action. Both its external quality and the unfortunate compression required by a maximum viewing time limit the film. A novel, for example, can take forty hours to be read, and can indulge in the luxury of leisurely expression, whereas the film is at the mercy of the speeding celluloid that cannot turn back...
...performance of the young Hungarian violinist, Johanna Martzy, in the Brahms Violin Concerto was the major event of the afternoon. Substituting at the last moment, her reading stressed the dramatic qualities of the concerto without neglecting its lyricism. She has enough tone and technique to render the most difficult passages of this difficult work with seeming ease. The first movement cadenza was especially remarkable for its coherence, the sustained ending and orchestral entrance providing a particularly beautiful phrase...
...week's end the arguments still went on in Kumasi. The decision that British Justice H. C. Smith must render will go far to decide the meaning of law and liberty in Ghana...