Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...facts appear to be fairly straightforward: at the first meeting of the course, Hubbard asked the 12 students, including three men, whether they wanted to include personal perspectives on the course material (a decision that would eliminate males), or to keep the focus on more impersonal issues. After a two-hour discussion on what students wanted to get from the seminar--a discussion that all participants agreed last week was fair to everyone involved--the three men withdrew their applications to the course. During the class meeting, several women said they would not take the course if men were included...
...Minister John Vorster appears to have threatened that if Smith did not accept majority rule he would end fuel and water supplies to Rhodesia, as well as cutting its rail links to the outside world, thus bringing the Rhodesian economy to its kness immediately. Vorster's aims are quite straightforward: he hopes to consolidate apartheid at home by sacrificing Rhodesia and so defusing violent conflict on his borders. At the same time, his policies are designed to change world opinion about South Africa and to revive his attempts at detente with black leaders...
...directorial tyle. This brings to mind Vincent Canby's interesting remark about this film: [Guilmain], I suspect, made exactly the kind of film she set out to." I'm not so sure Canby communicates exactly what he set out to, but he would probably agree that Guilmain's straightforward and naive realization of a 13 year-old's perspective does produce some very funny moments--a ridiculous dispute in the car, Jean flopping off-balance into a garden chair--without stooping to too much cynicism. But also without touching us very deeply, because Veronique never does act her real...
...first, it appeared to French police like a case of straightforward, though exceptionally grand larceny. Early last July, Hervé de Vathaire, 49, the chief accountant of France's huge Dassault conglomerate, strolled into the Banque Nationale de Paris and signed a withdrawal order on the personal account of his employer. The sum was unusually large: 8 million francs ($1.6 million) in 500-franc notes. Still, no one at the bank thought to question De Vathaire as he lugged two big suitcases out of the bank; after all, he had long been empowered to sign Industrialist Marcel Dassault...
...which the convict-students prosecute and defend cases before actual judges from the D.C. bench. Says Garland Poynter, head of education at the District of Columbia Jail: "Once you learn the system, you learn to respect it. It decreases frustration." Thanks to street law's practical and straightforward approach, even inmates with scant education often prove to be apt and alert pupils...