Word: summing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Italian films, especially as the camera concentrates on the faces of the actors, never letting one forget that this is a human drams. Each individual performance conveys this sense of inescapable humanity, and in Visconti's bringing them together, he makes for us a whole far greater than the sum of its parts...
...evening's end the patrons-art lovers and investors alike-had bid a total of $1,098,775 for 39 works-a sizable sum even at Parke-Bernet, which is one of the world's three biggest art and rare books auction houses. Aside from the Bonnard, two other paintings broke records. A splendid, red-faced Valet de Chambre by Chaim Soutine brought $76,000, nearly four times Soutine's auction record of seven years ago. An even bigger leap in value: a pair of superbly winsome lovers by Marc Chagall for $77,500, whose auction price...
Warns Conant, in sum: ''The building up of a mass of unemployed and frustrated Negro youth in congested areas of a city is a social phenomenon that may be compared to the piling up of inflammable material in an empty building in a city block. Potentialities for trouble-indeed possibilities of disaster-are surely there...
With some justice, Gromyko can complain about the inscrutable Americans, for during much of last week the U.S. flickered with semiofficial hints of compromise, most of which were later denied. In sum, however, Gromyko's report to his boss is that the U.S. is ready to talk, even to make concessions-but only after Russia shows a willingness to give considerably more in return than...
...major block was a fear of losing attention if they made any real progress in learning. Bruner got results by ridding them of reliance on external rewards or punishments. Working with normal children, he soon decided that learning is best achieved by freeing the human instinct to synthesize-in sum, by stressing the "act of discovery...