Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were tense with anticipation. In Algiers, settlers gathered around TV sets at home or sipped anisette at bars and cafes, waiting for the broadcast. From five minutes to 8 onward, the television cameras focused on a clock with a large second hand counting off the time down to 8 sharp. Then, at last, an announcer intoned, "16th September, 1959. Elysée Palace. General de Gaulle, President of the Republic and of the Community, addresses the nation...
...Obsolete or Obsolescent." Gaitskell's lavish promises promptly evoked an outraged reply from Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcot Amory. The Labor program, said Heathcot Amory, is "irresponsible," could only result in "huge increase of public expenditure, sharp rise in taxation, and a return to inflation with severe danger to our balance of payments...
...interested in producing well-rounded men, but men with sharp, abrasive edges-rebels with clear minds and uncowed consciences, critics of society, not adjusters to it." The words would have a stirring ring coming from any educator, but they take on added meaning coming from the dean of faculty of a new public college spun off by big (20,000 students) Michigan State University, long known as an "ag and tech" institution. Last week, at the opening of the new college at Oakland, 60 miles east of M.S.U.'s main East Lansing campus, crewcut Dean Robert Hoopes, 39, onetime...
...Magician (Swedish). Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman's latest public fantasy, full of sharp physical images and foggy symbols; the story of a mid-19th century Mesmer and his touring Magnetic Health Theater, whose members include his wife (Ingrid Thulin), masquerading as a male helper, his witch-grandmother, an ailing actor and an oversexed coachman...
Golden Demon unfolds in a series of tableaux; transitions are sharp, symbolism through color contrasts more than obvious. To fill in some of the larger gaps, a narrator quotes (?) Japanese poetry as the camera sweeps over the landscape and the background music swells...