Word: resistible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members of the Labor Committee fear that if they just hit one of the hospitals at a time, the others in the council will be able to relieve the labor pressure with money and by sharing facilities. For example, if one hospital were struck, it might be able to resist worker demands by transferring many of its patients to another hospital and waiting out the strike. Of course this couldn't happen if all the hospitals were in danger of being struck simultaneously...
Receptive to Ideas. The psychology of the Total Immersion technique, as Berlitz officials unashamedly admit, is suspiciously close to that of brainwashing. "What we try to do," says New York Berlitz Director Emanuel Huarte, "is to break students down mentally until they lose the ability to resist and are receptive to fresh ideas." The breakdown begins to the clang of an 8:15 a.m. bell in a windowless classroom, where the student faces one of his four alternating instructors. Student and teacher speak nothing but the foreign language during eleven 40-minute periods, relieved only by five-minute English breaks...
...spiritual crisis through a therapeutic chain of events, Antonioni's films are rarely concerned with major personal development or change. Instead, Antonioni fully reveals the nature of his character's dilemma, and then brings that character to a kind of stasis. In Blow-Up, the photographer may never fully resist the temptations of pop culture, but his commitment to watching will always prevent total immersion in mod sterility. The last shot of the film shows him with his camera, very much alone, sadly watching revellers representative of the behavior Antonioni condemns...
...F.D.R.'s children, Anna, Franklin Jr. and John, as well as such aging Roosevelt aides as former Attorney General Francis Biddle and F.D.R.'s personal secretary, Grace Tully. Carefully characterizing himself "not as a judge of painting, but as a judge of men," L.B.J. nonetheless could not resist noting that Shoumatoff's likeness of his political idol was "a portrait I like." Commissioned by the White House Historical Association, it will displace a painting of George Washington in the presidential office, and will hang there, Johnson said reverently, "as long as I am President...
Gregory Calvert of SDS, wearing a full mustache and orange pin that read "resist," explained that SDS opposed volunteer army because it is the same thing as a professional army...