Word: shattered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contact with Muperson, her slightly complacent progressive formulas shatter. How does one inspire a Muperson - and still get all those troublesome blocks picked up? Mrs. Ashton-Warner's dilemma is every bit as old as the first teacher. What is new is her evident confusion, her unfortunate paralysis...
...Pius' critics have conceded that he partially made up for his public silence by quietly using Vatican agencies and his personal intervention to save thousands of Jews from extermination. Now a new voice has been added to the chorus of the Pope's inquisitors that seeks to shatter even that notion...
Mark Spitz of Indiana, perhaps the best all-round swimmer in the world, tightened his stranglehold on the 200-yd. butterfly, breaking the American and NCAA record in the trials and going on to shatter that mark hours later with a 1:48.48 clocking...
These are precisely the stereotyped categories that Barbara Loden, actress and film maker, set out to shatter in Wanda, a lowbudget, highly autobiographical effort released last year. Says Miss Loden, who wrote, directed and starred in the picture: "Wanda was the prototype of the unliberated wom an. She had hardly any overtly redeeming qualities. Usually a girl like that would be fixed up to be more at tractive or be made witty. But I wanted to show a real woman from a certain milieu of our society. All my films will probably be fictionalized sociological studies about women and their...
...behalf of social theories but to serve people and if we disturb society's equilibrium, we are really upsetting the lives of individuals. We had better be sure we are deeply dedicated to pushing on for a better world to replace the old one we try to shatter...