Word: developing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Western and Soviet permafrost experts got together at Purdue for a five-day conference on ways and means of heating up their underground cold war. Eventually the assembly settled down to develop two lines of strategy-attack and conservation...
...Claude Renoir opens the movie with a superb painting of yellow flowers, green fields, and turquoise sea, he sets up an artistic standard that is sustained throughout the picture. White and blue-gray winters, lugubrious shots of motley interiors, and overcast hunting scenes do at least as much to develop moods as the dialogue and acting. Though masterful in its own right, Renoir's delicate camerawork also does much to control the frail and precise despair that makers End of Desire an excellent movie...
...want to encourage community development and to shake them out of their apathy," she said. "For years the government has been helping the Indians do almost everything, but perpetual paternalism can't develop self-reliance and initiative. We want to encourage the Indians to realize that they can organize programs for their own children, that they can assume responsibility and do something for themselves...
Over such ritualistic williwaws did last week's impasse develop. Overriding British and French objections that it would be a mistake to codify the rules, the U.S. talked its allies into drawing up a memorandum that went to the Russians two weeks ago. For six days the Russians did not even acknowledge the memo. But when the U.S. sent a twelve-vehicle convoy across the East German border, Moscow gave its reply. As the convoy reached Marienborn, Lieut. Colonel Viktor Spiridonov ordered passengers to get out. Since there were only 20 passengers in the convoy (along with 24 drivers...
Hawes says that the Big Three schools were the "gentlemen's quarters" from the end of the Civil War until the end of World War II. After that, a sudden influx of applications caused the three most prestigious colleges to make a choice between "professed commitment to develop intellect and a long rich association with the upper class." The three, "especially Harvard," decided to replace aristocracy with "meritocracy," writes Hawes...