Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marijuana, in effective dosages, affects mood and decision-making centers of the brain, as does alcohol only at the level of drunkenness. Pot, in contrast to alcohol, has little effect on the mechanics of body movement, whereas the drunk is partially protected by being unable to carry out many of his impetuous, diluted inclinations. The pot high lasts more than four hours, is easily extended, and is not easily detected by those who should be warned of the partial incapacitation of the potted. The quality of the mind depends on the sum of experiences in judging whether information is reliable...
...Newspaper Editors, meeting in Washington's Shoreham Hotel. Nelson Rockefeller, advertising his "availability" in the first of a series of speeches on national problems, addressed himself to the urban crisis in a half-hour weighty but well reasoned address that left the editors slightly comatose. Richard Nixon, by contrast, sparkled in a relaxed format that mixed stand-up wit with graceful repartee before a panel of four editors. The same editorial audience that clapped for Rockefeller only twice-and then none too loudly-interrupted Nixon's speech with applause 15 times...
What looms beyond the moon? Russian space efforts, says Mstislav V. Keldysh, president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, are already focused on "the setting up of interplanetary stations and the reaching of other planets." By contrast, the moon now seems to be the end of the line to many U.S. space scientists. Hamstrung by cutbacks in appropriations, laboratories and space installations across the country have been laying off technicians, engineers and scientists by the thousands. More important, they have been forced to suspend most planning for interplanetary missions. "There is no question that things will be bleak...
...notable exception is UCLA's 8-minute Now That The Buffalo's Gone, by Burton C. Gershfield, an intensely personal treatment of the American Indian seen in modern media, photographed in high contrast solarized color. With blood-red skies surrounding purple-and-green silhouetted Indians, Gershfield synthesizes two unique aspects of American a from two different centuries and creates a novel and moving film...
...forms are not mutually exclusive; in fact, they can complement one another quite nicely. Roy Stryker, the man who directed the Farm Security Administration photography project discovered as an economics professor at Columbia the effectiveness of photographs in making abstract economic concepts tangible for his students. In clear contrast to Sontag, he became convinced that "the photograph... that little rectangle, is one of the damnedest educational devices ever made." Sontag correctly argues that "photographs do not explain; they acknowledge." But this is no reason to disparage photography--understanding is impossible without acknowledgement...