Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your article? I think not. When I went to pick up my pay, I found the grower's house to be a shack; and his wife, shabbily attired, could scarcely speak English. From what I've seen of other farm owners, this most likely may be the rule rather than the exception...
...building the team, NASA all but threw away the rule book. It was clear, for example, that university brains would have to be tapped. But instead of following the usual practice of giving Government scholarships directly to stu dents, and allowing the students to shop for berths at a few Ivy League universities, NASA turned the money ($100 million so far) over to a large number of universities, thus ensuring greater cross-fertilization of ideas...
...Viet Nam, as in most of Asia, the intellectual is heavily influenced by the Confucian tradition, which ordains that the scholar has an obligation not only to disseminate knowledge but also to participate in the rule of his country. From this concept, the mandarinate emerged, and down through Viet Nam's history the mandarins provided the administrative core for the nation. In the 19th century, with the arrival of the French, the mandarinate split: some scholars resisted the invaders, others collaborated...
...been in vogue for several years now, for a variety of stylish reasons. (Political capital is surely a featured consideration; American critics have a habit of translating the Czech's frequent portrayal of stolid bureaucracy--intended as neutral moral backgroun to more intimate drama--as veiled protest against socialist rule). Most Czech films share an "unstylish", descriptive approach to reality, attempting to cast social themes in individualized dimensions (Milos Forman, Jiri Menzel). But a few filmmakers have made a radical break with previous Czech film, abandoning descriptive conventions for vivid stylization and a strong strain of philosophical abstraction. Chief among...
...pretty patterns which Ballard was allowed to establish in True Grit are absent in The Wild Bunch since, unlike the Hathaway film, Sam Peckinpah has directed half to three-quarters of this epic in close-shot. The major exception to this rule of composition comes in the slow-motion orgies of violence which punctuate the film at various crucial points...