Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STRANGER. Italian Director Luchino Visconti's film follows the action of Albert Camus' fine novel with hardly a comma missing-and therein lies both its strength and its weakness. The action of the book eventually moves into the mind, and Visconti does not find a cinematic way of translating the shift. Marcello Mastroianni plays the hero suffering from alienation and despair...
...other dangerous drugs," and urged adding 219 agents to the present total of 639 in the Narcotics Bureau and in the Health, Education and Welfare Department's Bureau of Drug Abuse Control. In addition, he asked Congress to authorize 128 more FBI agents, for a nationwide strength...
NASA's $350 million Surveyor program has already tested the bearing strength of the lunar surface and scouted all the proposed flatland target sites for the U.S.'s first manned moon mission. This was accomplished spectacularly in four out of six shots; Surveyor's budget authorized seven. What to do with the last moon robot? As a sort of job-end bonus for a mission brilliantly accomplished, NASA left it up to a panel of lunar experts. They decided to gamble on an exploratory shot to one of the moon's unknown upland regions: the rock...
...Taut and serious, gifted with a computer memory for scores, he can stamp his identity on musicians and audiences alike, though the identity is sometimes too cool and cerebral. At best, his precise, literal readings, etched sharply with the point of his metronomic baton, have clarity, balance and compelling strength...
...recorded discussions of ethics. Occasionally the exchange gets rough ("I think what you said is outrageous." "Why, that's crazy! That's absurd"). But the vehemence only testifies to the fact that the men involved think and feel deeply. They respond to each other from positions of strength and conviction. Paul Weiss, 66, is Sterling Professor of Philosophy at Yale, founder and longtime editor of the Review of Metaphysics; he ranks among the leading speculative philosophers in the U.S. His son Jonathan, 28, is a pragmatic attorney and social activist who has earned a reputation as defender...