Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Shape of Films to Come." A survey of new moviemaking techniques featuring Christopher Chapman's Academy Award-winning A Place to Stand and a selection of avant-garde films shown at Montreal's Expo 67. Repeat...
...issue of "cronyism" seemed to overshadow all others. As Fortas described it, his role as presidential adviser has been grossly exaggerated. While he was indeed called in on "a few critical matters," most notably Viet Nam and the Detroit riots, he said that his role was not to shape policy but to synthesize the arguments of others in clear legal style. "My function," he noted, "has been to listen to what is said . . . then to sum up the arguments on the one side, the considerations on the other...
...alienate many Communist countries and national parties. If it permits Dubček to proceed, his sweeping reforms are bound to spread elsewhere and further weaken Russia's hold over its Communist neighbors. The Kremlin is caught in an enormous dilemma and. no matter what it does, the shape and strength of what used to be called the Communist bloc are bound to change drastically...
...That shape has been changing, of course, for 20 years. The Soviets, in effect, abandoned the Marxist dream of total, supranational Communism with the dissolution of the Third International in 1943. Five years later, on a gamble that Stalin would not risk U.S. atomic firepower by intervening, Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito took the first successful walk from Moscow. The Kremlin successfully stamped out Hungary's uprising in 1956, but Tito has been followed in this decade by the puritanical Chinese and their sympathizers in Albania, then by Rumania's Nicolae Ceausescu, who wanted to pursue...
...retreated into his shell, seeing practically no one but a few close friends and hardly ever appearing on the telly or the front pages. Now Wilson has suddenly re-emerged with force. First, he dealt decisively with his disintegrating Cabinet, warning right-wing dissidents two weeks ago to shape up by quoting Harry Truman's famous dictum, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." Then he announced at a party rally that Britain, which has been having more than its share of economic difficulties, was now "on the way to an economic miracle...