Word: subjecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cost them dearly in tariff concessions. Four East African members that are anxious to get rid of their Asian minorities (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia) were outraged because Britain was not willing to take them off their hands and decided to boycott the conference's discussions on the subject...
...relationships. Men and women in a classroom setting interact in a completely different fashion from the way they would in other settings. They play different roles; they present the academic side of themselves. The purpose of a class is not to meet other people; it is to learn the subject matter under discussion. A large lecture hall of 300 students is not conducive to meeting other students, much less others of the opposite...
Even the modest projects of Japan's Akira Kurosawa are conceived and executed on a grand scale. Whether his subject is history (Seven Samurai), social commentary (The Bad Sleep Well), classic drama (The Lower Depths) or thriller (High and Low), Kurosawa invests each film with the breadth of an epic vision. Taken together, his films are like a single, vivid morality play, often heroic and sometimes cynical, celebrating the triumph of man over circumstance...
Quennell's powers were triumphantly evident in his two-volume study of Byron, the only English poet who could rival Pope as a satirist. In Alexander Pope, Quennell has found another genius for a subject, though with him the difficulties are greater. The poet who wrote "the proper study of mankind is man" made no great study of himself, whereas Byron was his own biographer and the actor-manager of his own theater in every line he wrote. The clues to Pope's nature are to be found in the quality of his age, with its political-theological...
...subject is less conventional: the Cosa Nostra ("this thing of ours"). Quite a thing it is, too. The Justice Department estimates that organized crime in the U.S. grosses better than $40 billion a year. "If the Cosa Nostra's illegal profits were reported," Maas says, the U.S. could afford "a 10% tax reduction instead of a 10% surcharge...