Word: responded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bertrand Russell Foundation sponsored the first International War Crimes Tribunal, which gathered evidence of malfeasance in the American conduct of the Indochina war. Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre invited the American government to send representatives to state its case to the tribunal, but the Johnson administration chose not to respond to the invitation. Pressed by reporters to explain the administration's disregard for Russell's efforts, secretary of state Dean Rusk replied that he had no intention of "playing games with a 94-year-old Briton." By the end of the tribunal's first two sessions, the United States...
...repressive regime (TIME, April 28) has alienated the populace. Kim may also feel that the U.S., which has a mutual defense treaty with South Korea (backed by the presence of nearly 40,000 American soldiers), is temporarily so weakened in its foreign policy that it would not respond effectively on Seoul's behalf. Undoubtedly, Pyongyang is aware of a recent U.S. poll that shows 65% of those questioned would oppose U.S. intervention in a new Korean war; only 14% would back...
...having abortions. "If there are more than three fetuses, it's a disaster," says one fertility expert. But Dr. Robert Kistner of Harvard Medical School, a pioneer in Clomid treatment, feels that multiple pregnancies can and should be prevented before they start. Kistner treats women who do not respond to Clomid alone by priming them first with small doses of Clomid and Pergonal, then checking their estrogen (female hormone) levels to estimate how many eggs they are about to release...
Maybe Seeger's sort of appeal can still work. After all, you do hear a lot of people clapping and singing along on the album, albeit a bit slow to respond to Seeger's signals and a little self-consciously. But the whole affair brings to mind that heart-rending scene in Fitzgerald's Gatsby, when Nick ventures that perhaps he shouldn't get his hopes up, that it's been years since Daisy loved him. "Can't recapture the past?" Gatsby responds. "Why, of course...
...capacity for readjustment. From the beginning, it makes each images new, each person distinct and alone, throwing our soft store of working axioms out the window. Audiences are always comfortable watching social comedies because they can immediately grasp the values and understand what they are being ordered to respond to within each given frame. Antonioni puts it all up for re-examination. Some time ago, he said...