Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theme is initiative. It is somehow fitting that only by committing what may prove to be a felony could Ellsberg help release the documented truth of an immoral, unjust, and illegally pursued war. For 26 years, America has supported an increasingly intense display of inhumanity. Only civil disobedience could reveal the facts of our involvement to the public, facts which, unsurprisingly, are still denied in much public reaction to the Pentagon Papers...
...Passion of Joan of Arc is almost entirely a study of the faces of Joan and her tormentors. "What I want to do," Dreyer writes, "is to penetrate, by way of their most subtle expressions, to the deepest thoughts of my actors. For it is these expressions which reveal the personality of a character, his unconscious feelings, the secrets hidden deep within his soul." It's a technique Bergman often uses, as John Cassavetes does in Faces. Bathed in blinding white light and shaded in deep shadows, the face of Nina Pens Rode (Gertrud) is studied gracefully, though perhaps...
...astronomers and exobiologists would be thrilled if they could communicate with life in outer space. But scientists are likely to get carried away in their specialties, and not see the effects of their work on mankind. Are we sure that we wish to reveal our presence on earth to such other living creatures? If they are not like us, they will be monstrous to us, whether larger or smaller. If they have become miniaturized and computerized, we would prefer to destroy them as a threat to us, and they would surely try to destroy us gross, primitive creatures, except...
...recruit subjects for their experiment, University of Wisconsin Psychologists Rick Heber and Howard Garber went to a slum, which typically is the section of any city with the highest concentration of the mentally retarded. Initial testing showed that retarded mothers are likely to have retarded children, but did not reveal the reason. Heber and Garber suspected that it was the way in which the retarded mothers dealt with their children that made the critical difference between them and the children of equally impoverished mothers of normal intelligence...
...heady friendliness of the conference, the Russians also saw fit to reveal that they are conducting...