Word: presentable
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...result is incoherence. General Scowcroft and I agreed, say 90% of the time, but we disagreed 10% of the time. If Scowcroft disagreed, he would say so to the President and I wanted him to do that. But I felt that if as Secretary of State I could not present an argument that would prevail over that of the National Security Adviser, I did not deserve...
...present dangerous impasse we have reached?in our direct dealings with Iran, our vulnerability in the Persian Gulf, our overall relationship Tucker with the Soviet Union ?gives every sign of persisting under a President so far unable to make a clear break from the recent and largely discredited past. Carter should now be concentrating on establishing a credible American military presence in and around the Persian Gulf. This presence cannot be restricted to elements of naval and air power. To be credible both to the states of the region and the Soviet Union, it must be quite visible...
...intelligence believes the Soviets have airdropped weapons and ammunition for the K.D.P. Moscow, for the time being, does not intend to revive the Turkish Democratic Party, which separated Azerbaijan from Iran in 1945-46. But neither Moscow nor Tudeh can afford to antagonize the Tehran government. Thus, for the present, they support it with ostentatious ardor. Their apparent strategy is to do what they can to prevent better relations between Iran and the West while they wait for the present regime to fall apart from its own excesses and weaknesses. Khomeini himself is 80 and ailing...
...deepest challenge to the future of Christianity in Africa may not be politics, or the hostile rivalry of Islam. It could lie in the present explosion of religious growth and the sheer "Africanization" of Christianity that is already occurring. Since the Second Vatican Council, Catholicism has loosened up a good deal, permitting a non-Latin liturgy that may now be dressed up by all manner of music and even dance. Though the Vatican has not shifted on basic doctrine, since Vatican II there has been relaxation by lay Catholics in the West in the practice of birth control and public...
Then there is Hitchcock's masterly alternation of objective and subjective points of view in almost every scene. The first is used to present the audience with a few scary facts that the protagonist does not know. Then Hitchcock cuts to the subjective, showing events from the protagonist's incomplete point of view. Thus insinuated into the hero's shoes?or sometimes the villain's?the director could induce agonies of suspense in the viewer...