Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PRODUCERS has many things going for it-notably a wild ad-lib energy that explodes in sight gags and punch lines. Mel Brooks, creator of TV's Get Smart, wrote and directed this piece of lunacy about a pair of sleazy producers (Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder) who try to make a killing on a Broadway flop...
...setback, it was generally assumed, is not the time to back down. While admitting that the attacks may have been a "humbling experience" for the U.S., the somewhat dovish Chicago Daily News declared that they also bore a "message" that should not be missed in the "shock over the sight of blood." The "image of the enemy" said the News, "has altered from that of one stubborn but perhaps amenable to negotiation to that of one arrogantly confident he can smash the American will to fight. President Johnson was right in saying that it is not so much our power...
Projecting Violence. After a couple of ear-piercing, sight-and-sound sessions, the participants were about to settle down to an actual discussion of newspaper editing-only to have the lights go out. Then, on screens on three walls, flashed gory Viet Nam scenes from Communist propaganda movies, accompanied by a booming sound track. "The purpose," explains Co-Organizer David Peterson, 23, a University of Denver graduate, "was to make people aware that violence is going to be a great part of American civilization unless people start doing something about it." The film was meant to blow the minds...
When he first came to Harvard in 1931 he established a department of Sociology. (He had earlier set up a department of Sociology at the University of Petrograd.) For many years he taught Sociology A, but for the last 20 he had not taught any courses, and undergraduates lost sight...
...last two months, two related struggles over the purpose and direction of the GSA have racked the Council, and an end to the bitterness and differences is not yet in sight. The issue came into the open this week with the appearance of a radically worded Vietnam referendum which, Council activists claim, has been structured to insure its own defeat...