Word: skills
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There still is some question as to whether Harvard's skill or Columbia's ineptitude was responsible for the outcome. But as J.S. Mill so aptly put it: "We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still." It was a little of both...
...woman. The homosexual bond between Louis and Fernand is accorded the same frankness and sensitivity as the heterosexual union with Alexa. The erotic interplay between the two men lays to rest the hoary cinematic cliche that the sight of two men kissing repulses women. Serreau's skill as director and Jean--Francois Robin's delicate photography present the embrace with a warm dignity...
...does it? Serreau makes her point extremely well; her film is beautifully cast, well-written and technically flawless. But her approach has a gaping hole in it. The skill with which she sensitively portrayed those outside of society apparently vanished when she was called upon to portray those within. To emphasize just how happy and fulfilled Fernand, Alexa and Louis are, she reduces the film's "straights" into one-dimensional jokes. Fernand's ex-wife is a case in point. She sports grotesque polyester clothes, has a permanent Pat Nixon hairdo and screams continually at her children. Her voice grates...
...acknowledge reality: the PLO holds, if not the key, at least one of the keys to any future solution, and would lose it only if it allowed itself to be separated from the inhabitants of the occupied territories. Arafat, so far, has shown remarkable powers of survival and diplomatic skill. A solution will require the involvement of the Palestinians from the occupied territories, Hussein and Arafat. It is precisely because they know it that Hussein himself, and the leaders of Saudi Arabia, have advised the Carter administration to make contact with...
When teaching a new skill in practice, MacAusland gradually applies pressure (e.g. putting time limits on play or by cutting down the practice area) until players can execute the maneuver under a strongly competitive condition...