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...holidays with the rest of the nation. Ambitious Senators were fighting to save or to kill bills on which their reputations were riding. Time was too short to pass even the measures that a majority clearly favored; in the crunch it was easy for a few men to thwart the will of the rest. At the same time, President Nixon angrily if belatedly joined the fray as some of his priority programs faced death; he berated the Senate for its tardiness and threatened to call a post-Christmas session of both chambers...
...those who fear that Special Concentrations will act as a concession and thus thwart any effort to overhaul Harvard according to some general plan-if Harvard does in fact need an overhaul-the inadequacies which the program will pinpoint will help determine what fundamental changes are needed. On the other hand, if the curriculum is actually healthy and does not need major alterations, then Special Concentrations will result in no more than the quiet accommodation of a few unconventional interests...
...Jean-Louis (Jean-Louis Trintignant) through his visual point of view (also brief interior monologues), subtly builds up a tension between your sensibility and your experience of his, and finally forces a dialectical confrontation in sequence after sequence with the ultimately desirable Maud (Francoise Fabian), where his choices directly thwart your inclinations to act through him. Rohmer uses this audience identification with the human reality of the film to force the relevance (though not necessarily the acceptance) of his abstract, moral material...
There have been tension and trouble ever since 1968, when two state-run enterprises, ENl and IRI, bought a major block of stock in Montecatini-Edison. The state companies want Italy's chemical industry welded into a cartel strong enough to thwart foreign competitors. The government's men have proved to be far more dynamic and adept at grabbing power than the representatives of private shareholders. Now the state's executives are likely to move into the vacuum created by Merzagora's departure. In Italy, the government already has monopoly control over electric power, telephones, railroads...
...Plan for No Fault. The cost of theft, burglary and fire insurance has climbed beyond the reach of many inner-city merchants. To thwart robberies, some small-shop owners in Manhattan now keep their doors locked during the business hours and have hired private patrolmen. Battered universities are also being hit by crushing increases in premiums. The University of California's bill to insure its buildings against fire, bombs and other riotous mishaps has leaped in just two years from...