Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...determined by the range of what he saw and heard -a limitation in other reporters, perhaps, but a vast license in Terkel's case. He was in Chicago when Dillinger was shot and in Selma in 1965. He has also elicited conversation from just about every notable from Bertrand Russell to Mahalia Jackson-and he is still at his listening post at Chicago's WFMT...
...Vogue would run away from my cover." But Polanski still managed to express himself inimitably across 53 pages. Among his features: an annotated gallery of his leading ladies (Faye Dunaway is "the grande dame of the screen") and six pages on his idols, Icelandic Painter Erro, the late Bertrand Russell and the late Kung Fu movie star Bruce Lee. All in all, Polanski was pleased: "There's a certain thrill to seeing my work on a page. It's the thrill of novelty, like having a new affair...
...minimum standard" approach to undergraduate education is not without problems. Occasionally we encounter a student who fits the category of one-sided genius--the mathematical wizard, for example. As Bertrand Russell has pointed out, someone with the gifts of a Mozart would gain little from a conservatory. But such occurrences are extremely rare, and need not be central to a plan designed for the majority of Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates. We should always preserve sufficient flexibility to take care of these very special cases...
French Political Scientist Bertrand de Jouvenel has described two of the main categories of leaders as dux, literally leader, and rex, literally ruler. Dux is the activist and innovator, often an inspirational type. Rex is the stabilizer or broker or manager...
...focusing on the specific reactions of the father, Bertrand Tavernier saves the film from triviality as well as tedium. The story of a young man rebelling against a garden variety of evil most people hardly notice could easily have become an exercise in moral smugness. But Bernard's act concerns us far less than his father's awakening understanding and acceptance of it. After the trial, at which Michel scandalizes everyone by announcing that he stands behind his son, he leans into the wind on a bridge over the Saone while Antoine indulges in a tirade against authority. Antoine...