Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...development was dependent entirely on scripted behavior and action, a constant regardless of dialogue. If Frechette and Halprin drew on their own lives for some of the dialogue, as Antonioni apparently encouraged them to do, then they are in part responsible for character inconsistencies that cloud the basic narrative thrust of the film. A twenty-one-year-old carpenter from Mel Lyman's Fort Hill commune, allowed to fuse his beliefs with his part, is not going to esndorse a set of volatile character traits compatible with buying guns and menacing policemen ( Avatar, remember, endorsed Robert Kennedy's candidacy...
...mind and a weakness for describing himself in Promethean terms (I wanted to "give the children of men a slightly better chance to fight a battle already largely foredoomed"). He is a man who can speak of Communists as cobras and Socialists as pit-vipers. Yet his tragic concerns thrust far beyond such passion-and beyond simple-minded notions of crusading against Communism by police methods and the more ranting assertion of American virtues. Chambers scorned such methods. For he saw and eloquently argues that survival-if it is to be won at all-will depend on the moral qualities...
Democrats chafe bitterly under the stagnant leadership of Speaker John W. Mc-Cormack, 78. In a party caucus last week, Representative Jerome R. Waldie of California offered a resolution of no confidence in McCormack's stewardship. Waldie's thrust was laid aside by a vote of 192 to 23, but the appearance of overwhelming support for McCormack was misleading. Fully aware that Waldie had no chance of success, many reform-minded members held their fire, but hoped to fight with more success another...
Many businessmen correctly sense that concentration on the new problems will involve painful adjustments, including slower gains in sales and profits for some industries. The main thrust of Nixon's antipollution proposals is to force industry to pay the full social cost that its production entails. Businessmen worry that Government may force them to spend so much so quickly that it might impair the financial health of some companies. For a while at least, a ton of steel or a kilowatt-hour of power will probably cost consumers more if the manufacturing process avoids pollution. On the other hand...
Despite the closeness of the meet, Harvard had never trailed after Downer and junior John Gillis placed second and fourth in the 600 to thrust the Crimson ahead of Dartmouth, 16-15 after four events...