Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simple cases like Carnegie Hall he imparts a sense of total grandeur to the symphony, singling out groups of instruments without losing the greater visual scheme of their physical and musical relationship to the rest of the orchestra. This makes him ideal for that potentially pedestrian assignment, as well as for The Black Cat where Poelzig's house becomes an incredibly grand stage for the anguish displayed...
NATO's planners have had three months to devise a counter for future Soviet moves, but not all of the thinking was productive. U.S. planners even dusted off an old scheme to fire a controlled nuclear explosion as a warning. Where? Why inside allied territory, of course. Presumably the seismic quaver on Russian monitoring instruments would bring Soviet tanks to a shuddering halt. There were, however, no volunteers for the territory to be used for this backyard bomb. Equally unimpressive was the suggestion to fire a nuclear warning shot at sea, a latter-day version of the old shot...
...Capitol Hill. Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, warned early in the campaign that he would oppose elimination of the surtax "unless additional, very stringent economies are placed in effect." Mills takes an even dimmer view of the President-elect's pet scheme to offer private enterprise tax incentives for tackling pollution control, ghetto job training and slum rebuilding. He argues that such tax breaks would result in "a very material reduction in federal revenue," and flatly predicts that the new Administration "won't get anywhere" in putting them before Congress...
...whimsy and nightshade. Dennis Pitt (Anthony Perkins) is a paranoid, intrigue-minded young wanderer who has convinced himself that a local factory is polluting the river and poisoning the entire population. With the help of a naive drum majorette (Tuesday Weld), he grandiosely plots to foil the sinister scheme. Their plans, of course, go haywire; so do they. The girl carelessly murders a nightwatchman at the factory, and discovers that killing is not only much less strenuous than high school band practice, it is-for her-much more fun besides. Perkins initially has his doubts that homicide can be just...
...making the obvious complicated. This problem, of course, is endemic to the psychological approach to social science, and would not be too great a price to pay for a comprehensive account of the Cultural Revolution. If Lifton's is not comprehensive, it probably comes as close as any unitary scheme can. Until China opens up to the West, and maybe for a long time thereafter, art and science will be inseparable in studies of China. In the meantime, Robert Lifton's art brings us closer to reality than does Dean Rusk's science...