Word: renderer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve-year-old. Adding that six cities were already copying the Dallas law, he asked that it be thrown out. If it is not, he said, it would be an "intolerable burden" on the film industry. The court will hear no further argument on the subject, but will render a decision some time before recessing in June...
...State Department and AID, we are victims of the disease that Senator Fulbright has diagnosed as "the arrogance of power." And we have come to feel that they are more right than wrong, although of course there are many Volunteers whose ability to adapt themselves to the culture render them immune to such generalized criticism. The more deeply we examine ourselves the more clearly we realize that we are part of a culture whose pride in itself contains, as a corollary, contempt for others. Our role in this country is a demonstration of that trait: semiliterate in its language, nearly...
Truman Capote called it a "nonfiction novel," a dubious tag designed to draw attention to the undeniable fact that he had used the novelist's craft to render reality. Through painstaking accretion of minutiae, In Cold Blood harrowingly anatomized a multiple murder and in the process brought literary life to six dead people. They were the four members of the prosperous Clutter family of Holcomb, Kans., and their killers. Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, who were executed in 1965. Although the book was flawed by a seeming excess of sympathy for the criminals, it had the sweeping force...
There is just enough Yaleness in the Journal to keep it from being simply a magazine published in New Haven, but not so much as to render it dull to outsiders (or even Yalies). The first issue, for example, has Bruck's review, an informative piece on New Haven Mayor Richard Lee's years in office; a profile of actor-director Kenneth Haigh who is now in the Yale Drama School's Repertory Company; a short story by a Yale senior; and a vignette of a Yale undergraduate who makes movies instead of attending classes...
Leland Moss's production of Toys in the Attic is a willful distortion of a medicore play. But by the mysterious calculus of such things, the distortions hide what should be hidden, muffle the play's mechanical grinding, and render it one of the finest dramas I have seen in some time...