Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were overruled, and today Iam inclined to agree that we were wrong," Conant said. "When we made the recommendation, we thought there was a very small chance that the bomb would work. A new development [introduced by Edward M. Teller] made it a much more straightforward thing. I at least had hoped that the President and Secretary Acheson might have used the threat of developing an atomic bomb to force weapons control negotiations with the Russians, but looking back, that may have been a utopian point of view...
...Today, you know," Zeffirelli said, commenting on his straightforward conception of the productions, "it takes more courage to be conservative in a healthy way than to be revolutionary." Very true. But to be healthy, Italian opera needs passion...