Word: albert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your article on tax credits for private schools [April 26], Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, was quoted as saying: "There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities." He should know that the law requires young people to go to school. It does not require them to go swimming...
...Albert A. Ciabattari...
Inside the Third Reich, a five-hour TV movie based on the best-selling 1970 memoirs of Albert Speer, is one more honorable exploitation of Nazism's awful charm. At an early Nazi reception, Speer's wife (Blythe Danner) surveys the panoply and calls it "a dress rehearsal for disaster." It was no dress rehearsal; it was a superproduction of the real thing, and the main characters acted as if they were in their own movie. Hitler (Derek Jacobi) does malicious impersonations of Mussolini and Chamberlain; he sits raptly before a Busby Berkeley musical extravaganza; he watches himself...
Architecture is an art in the service of the power it houses, and Speer, the upper-middle-class son and grandson of architects, was a smooth courtier. His stern father (John Gielgud) despised the Nazis from the start for their socialism rather than their nationalism, but Albert felt no foreboding at all. This TV movie wonders just what he was capable of feeling. Hauer is a Dutch actor (Soldier of Orange, Nighthawks) with a sharp-featured face that emotion seems never to have touched. Thus he makes a perfect Speer, whom E. Jack Neuman's teleplay depicts...
...victory celebration continued on Saturday night when the team honored McCurdy in a drier manner--with a banquet. The men's and women's squads, team alumni and friends gathered in the Albert H. Gordon track facility for dinner and speeches in honor of Harvard's track legend...