Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thought so. Would he use his massive powers soon again? In the same way? With what limitations? Against any other domestic antagonist that tried to thwart his will? The prospect was somewhat frightening-and despite the popularity of Kennedy's victory, that prospect accounted for a great wave of disputation (see following story...
High Price. Washington has moved to remedy in part the lack of communications in the Vietnamese villages. Twentythree villages are already equipped with mimeograph machines, enabling trained Vietnamese editors to produce daily news papers with stories supplied by short wave radio. More than 100 mobile film units tour the country showing short subjects ranging from how-to-do-it films on health and agriculture to hard-hitting ex poses on the Viet Cong. The U.S. State Department, which helps with the scenarios, estimates that the films were seen by 17 million people last year...
...ruled by a self-perpetuating group of seven men, but in practice it can only function as a peculiar sort of democracy, in which the President acts either with the assent of those concerned, or with the carefully considered and deeply held belief that he is moving with the wave of the future. In 1958, Mr. Pusey, so deeply rooted in the past that he found it difficult to move even into the present, was so far from acting with the assent of his Faculty that he faced a group of distinguished professors--a veritable executive committee of the Faculty...
...sensational subject matter, but because of its brilliant use of the camera as a character. The junkies know they are being photographed; the camera man is drawn into their drama. This is a revolutionary American film, the first to use the techniques discovered by Europe's "new wave." The producers of The Connection are currently fighting censorship by the New York State Board of Regents; ironically, in a film that deals graphically with such themes as dope addiction and homosexuality, the Board of Regents objects only to the use of the word "shit," which appears twenty-eight times (Variety counted...
Scott Fitzgerald, by Andrew Turnbull. A meticulous, sensitive biography of the writer who invented the Jazz Age and the Lost Generation, poured himself down the drain with the dregs of martinis, and is now riding a wave of posthumous popularity...