Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federation is supposed to have a common legislature, military command and foreign policy. Later, when the Sudan has settled some internal problems resulting from an unsuccessful coup against President Jaafar Numeiry last July, it and its 15 million people will also join the federation. But each country is to retain its full sovereignty...
...been something of an anomaly-and a considerable problem for his ecclesiastical superiors. Maguire wanted to marry, but was determined to win papal permission-beforehand. He also happened to be a respected moral theologian teaching at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He meant to retain that position after marrying...
Even if the economy does retain its rosy glow, however, a more serious prob-lem remains. Milovan Djilas, author of The New Class and former right-hand man to Tito, urged a diminution of centralized rule and greater personal freedoms as long ago as the 1950s. For his pains, Djilas spent nine years in Tito's prisons. Now he is worried that a 23-man presidency might go too far toward de-centralization and do more harm than good. "A 'collective presidency' instead of a president," he wrote last fall, "will aggravate rather than lessen the inefficiency...
...remembers his past, returning after all this time to deliver a final message. What the message is-and to whom-is the kind of 19th century plot flourish that is spoiled by revelation. It is also too facile and hollow a device, which Losey and Pinter chose to retain from the original L.P. Hartley novel. One can feel affectionate toward this kind of artifice without fully accepting it, a response that may be equally valid for the film as a whole...
Abruptly out of touch and out of time, Capra quickly became hobbled by the industrial intricacies of postwar Hollywood. Attempting to retain artistic control over his films, he forms his own movie company, which fails. He goes from making innocuous Bing Crosby musicals to television science films to an ineffectual remake of his own Lady for a Day. After a few more luckless attempts to produce other movies, he settles into uneasy retirement...