Word: heights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really want to be a politician," Shultz says. "Basically I regard myself as a professional person." It is perhaps that professional detachment that allowed him to refrain from intervening in a two-month strike of East Coast longshoremen last winter. On a visit to New York at the height of the strike, he made a point of ordering bananas for dessert-to show that the strike had a minimal effect on the normal flow of goods...
...height of the emotional week, the Dow-Jones industrial average surged briefly past the 840 mark at which earlier rallies this year had stopped. Trading on the New York Stock Exchange twice boiled over 19 million shares for the sixth and eighth most active days in history. In all, the Dow-Jones rose 29 points for the week, closing...
...Abbey Road then is an album of the Beatles at the very height of their creative powers, a combination of extraordinarily strong songs written and performed with a kind of relentless assured zeal, and-on Side two in particular-infused with a mature and compassionate poetic vision, No wonder the Beatles are still Number One on every rock freak's list...
Stolen Kisses however, represents the height of Truffaut's unique artistry and save a great deal about what the Nouvelle Vague movement is. The opening shot of the Cinemathique is followed by a panning shot of Paris taken from the Cinematheque across the Seine to the Eeffel Tower. This shot introduces one of the important themes in the film and in the Nouvelle Vague movement-Paris and Parisians. Stolen Kisses is punctuated with unmistakable Parisian landmarks-the Eiffel Tower, the Musee du Cinema. Sacre Coeur a Parisian cafebar a street-cleaning car early in the morning -which serve constantly...
Consequently, l'UEC and l'UNEF were also at the height of their power. During the early years of the sixties l'UEC was without rival in the Latin Quarter, capable of mobilizing thousands in the streets in a few hours. When the OAS began its pro-war terrorist actions in both France and Algeria, and student groups, particularly Jeune Nation, rallied in support of the war, miltants of l'UEC organized the Front Universitaire AntiFasciste, FUA, to physically eliminate these fascists from the Latin Quarter...